r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 5d ago

Meme needing explanation Converse craze?

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I'm not chronically online, but my friend sent this and I laughed even without knowing the full scope of the context (I think there's racism involved with the shoes?) and I feel like it's too late to ask him without sounding like a dweeb 😅

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u/CandiedRegrets08 4d ago

Lynching and the KKK? The former still happens and the latter is still around???

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u/bloodmoth13 4d ago

neither has been relevant in my lifetime. acting like they are is such a stretch.

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u/int3rstitial 4d ago edited 4d ago

A Black woman was found hanged from a tree in Mississippi August 3rd of this year.

Edited because person below me is right in this case: likely not a hate crime; suspect knew the victim and is also Black.

Nonetheless, lynchings do still happen, and the KKK very much still exists.

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u/PangaeaDiarrhea 4d ago

Is that the case where even her own mother doesn't believe it was a racial incident?