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In reply to the discussion: Places whose names send shivers down your spine by their mere mention [View all]Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)How can such hatred and meanness flourish so easily?
Bath, Michigan
Specifically, the school there that was bombed in 1927.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103186662
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama:
4 innocent children bombed and murdered due to hate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Little_Girls
The Trail of Tears
Wounded Knee
Auschwitz
Dachau
Columbine
Sandy Hook
Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia
Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC
and one that really bothers me to this day:
Imperial Foods, Hamlet, NC (where racism caused the deaths of 25 people and destroyed countless other lives, not during the civil rights era, but in 1991, because the assholes swore up and down AAs in nearby neighborhoods were stealing chicken parts and other parts to take home for dinner) My mother worked there until the month before the fire when she finally found a better job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire
But good luck finding any mention of the racist policy everyone who knew of the plant, worked at the plant, knew someone who worked at the plant, and locals who knew the history of the locked fire doors and why they were locked, on the Wiki page about it. That page has been sanitized to hide the truth and it still infuriates me that they are allowed to do that.
Edited to add a documentary that explains what it was like working there and on that day, for perspective: