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Large brawl in Alabama as people defend Black riverboat worker against white assailants
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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Damn man. Someone was beaten over the head with a folding chair?
rocking song starts playing
"Ba gawd! That's the riverboat captain's music!"
Should of been fucking hit a few more times. Tired of these racist fucks, wanna act like an ignorant piece of shit? Go live in the 1800s.
Fun fact: the folding chair was invented by an African American in the early 1900’s.
Let's give Nathaniel Alexander some detail!
https://www.thoughtco.com/nathaniel-alexander-folding-chair-4074172
Patent 997,108, filed March 10, 1911, and granted July 4 the same year
He was probably sick of swinging full sized regular chairs at racist chucklefucks, so he got to work streamlining the swingin'.
“Live Every Chair and Swing” will now be the lyrics.
Swing low (or high) sweet chair, it hits, coming forth to stagger them down.
Bro walked up with the unblockable overhead