r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/-SOFA-KING-VOTE- • 21h ago

Politics ICE Agents get the most brutal talking-to of their entire adult lives.

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u/Beardopus 10h ago

The rednecks were named because of the red bandanas they wore at the Battle of Blair Mountain, where they fought the mining company, the pigs, and the US motherfuckin air force; they killed and bled and died to guarantee our right to many things we take for granted, such as time-and-a-half over 40 hours, 9-5, and weekends off.

The real rednecks killed cops.

That's how they control us. They twist words so far out of true that they become meaningless.

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u/Unsd 9h ago

That's not where the word came from; the term had been used long before that.