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  Police Open Fire as 50,000 Protest Outside Pretoria
  L.A. Times Archives
  Nov. 21, 1985 12 AM PT
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-11-21-mn-2106-s...

Makes me recall a similar story happening in our times in the world. The headline does not mention "Black". [Security force] indiscriminately is killing. World says nothing.



It’s in Pretoria, South Africa, so the context would’ve been immediately obvious to anyone reading at the time.


Considering how asleep the civil rights movement was in America over South Africa Apartheid, I don't think most people understood the context.




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