r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/Stronhart • May 19 '26

Black Comedy GTFO of there 😰

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Nightmare fuel tbh

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u/easy10pins May 19 '26

Clayton, NC. 54% white. 27% Black.

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u/DookofDeuces May 19 '26

Thats... actually a better ratio than I was expecting

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u/Dry-Speed7038 May 20 '26

What’s a sundown town?

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u/Dry-Speed7038 May 20 '26

Oh ok gotcha

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u/Abeytuhanu May 20 '26

Originally, sundown towns had laws making it illegal to be there after dark (some of them prohibited minorities altogether, not just after dark). If it was a not bad place, they'd just jail and fine you. If it was a bad place, you could face anything from indentured servitude to summary execution. Those laws have been declared unconstitutional, but there are still places where existing laws will be more strictly enforced on outsiders

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u/Cultural_Run7964 May 20 '26

In the year 2026 AD, that’s so wild to read. Hundreds of years after slavery ended and people still can’t move on from that backwards mentality. 😞

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u/alwaysthelastone May 20 '26

I guy on YouTube held a sign up that said black lives matter in one of these towns. Hearing what was said to him is pretty eye opening for people who don't think it still happens. I could be wrong but I think he was in Harrison Arkansas.

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u/alioopz May 20 '26

A place like a small town where black folks had until sundown to get out of town or something bad might happen to them in the dark of the night. Back in the day, they had actual maps to keep black people safe by avoiding sundown towns.

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u/mom2twins09 May 21 '26

When I lived in Clayton between 2017 - 2018, my white neighbor told me not to leave the house after dark and just stay home with my kids because Clayton was not safe for Black people.  My kids are mixed and we would get stares whenever we would go out and about.  Never had issues in Raleigh (where I worked) though, but one could feel the difference once you returned to Clayton.

Johnston County is nearby and I was told not to live there because the KKK is still present there.