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		nashashmi 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year... `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.

jrmg 24 days ago [–]

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

nashashmi 24 days ago | [–]

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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