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A white man waving an AR-15 around in front of his mansion says more about America than you'd think
In 1916, the city [St. Louis] was the first in the US to pass racial segregation
laws by popular referendum; in 1917, days of "race riots" — essentially
pogroms led by whites — left anywhere from 40 to well more than 250
Blacks dead, blocks of Black residences burned, and thousands of Black
families without homes.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mccloskeys-in-st-louis-history-of-guns-race-violence-separation-2020-7
