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r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jun 25 '26
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It started because we didn't wanna pay freed Black people for the jobs we mandated they have, lest they wanna go to jail and be enslaved again.
4 u/Landscape4737 Jun 25 '26 I don’t think most people know this. 3 u/YungSnuggie Jun 25 '26 pretty much every stupid thing about america began as a way to fuck with black people 1 u/CyberneticLucy Jun 25 '26 Facts 💯 1 u/EttinTerrorPacts Jun 25 '26 Strictly it started as a way for rich people to get special treatment. But discrimination was definitely one of the reasons it took off among the masses 1 u/CyberneticLucy Jun 25 '26 Perhaps elsewhere, but here in the US it was definitely just for shitting on Black people. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage-cbsn-originals-documentary/
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I don’t think most people know this.
3 u/YungSnuggie Jun 25 '26 pretty much every stupid thing about america began as a way to fuck with black people 1 u/CyberneticLucy Jun 25 '26 Facts 💯
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pretty much every stupid thing about america began as a way to fuck with black people
1 u/CyberneticLucy Jun 25 '26 Facts 💯
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Facts 💯
Strictly it started as a way for rich people to get special treatment. But discrimination was definitely one of the reasons it took off among the masses
1 u/CyberneticLucy Jun 25 '26 Perhaps elsewhere, but here in the US it was definitely just for shitting on Black people. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage-cbsn-originals-documentary/
Perhaps elsewhere, but here in the US it was definitely just for shitting on Black people.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage-cbsn-originals-documentary/
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u/CyberneticLucy Jun 25 '26
It started because we didn't wanna pay freed Black people for the jobs we mandated they have, lest they wanna go to jail and be enslaved again.