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A Black man’s brutal murder 25 years ago has faded from a Texas town’s memory

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A Black man’s brutal murder has faded from a Texas town’s memory

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Twenty-five years after a Black man, James Byrd, was killed by three White men in this East Texas town, many in Jasper are ready to forget.

Original - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/21/james-byrd-murder-jasper-texas/

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So what? History has billions of people being killed. What does it matter if some random one isn’t remembered?
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  Remembered in the small town where he was killed only 25 years ago because of the same kind of racism which still permeates the place.
  
  Your attempt at relativisation of this story is disingenous.

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