• PhlubbaDubba
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    3 days ago

    My dad actually got greenbook tips because he was traveling in the 80s through rural texas and his supervisors realized he “looked visibly Irish”

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      That’s crazy! You mean like the greenbook that was written for traveling Black Americans during the Jim Crow era so they could avoid places like sundown towns and businesses that refused services to POC? Sorry if that’s not what you meant, it’s the only greenbook I’m familiar with… unless greenbook is a general term for avoiding places filled with racism?

      Either way I had no idea that prejudice towards the Irish was still prevalent up into the 80’s. Thats…really something else.

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        3 days ago

        I do actually mean that.

        Rural Texans, there’s a reason they picked those guys to be the crop that gave us leatherface.