Charles Engelke on Mythryl: “Me: raises hand. And I'm NOT that old (in my head, anyway)!”

This is impressively dumb.

I wrote this week about how recent Jim Crow was, to the extent that a quarter of Americans were alive while it was in effect.

Philip Bump@pbump.com

For all of the interest in pretending that inequalities are a function of will or that structural racism is in the distant past: 12 million people were born in Jim Crow states before Jim Crow ended — and still live there today. Gift link:

ctinsider.comPhilip Bump: How recent is America's past?Things that Americans think of as having long ago were, in fact, within the lifespans of most of us.

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