Lauren Padgett

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

@nia_newton whoa

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

@goebema #preach

[Katie Writz @writzka]

Following the crowd is often easier than doing the right thing, #peerpressure. #BDSMN1

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

@RachelZ2016 I think people were afraid to give proper punishment bc they didnt want to be seen as a traitor for helping blacks

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

@ducklma I talked to mine last night. When my dad was in high school stores in NY refused to serve my gram's best friend bc she was black

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

@ducklma that seems to still be the problem today. People do things they don't agree with just so that they will belong and feel accepted

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

These KKK meetings are described as relaxing barbecues not violent anti-black meetings. Why would Tyson describe them this way? #BDSMN1

[Jake Elchert @JakeElchert]

Why did white people hurt black people that they didn't even know for no reason? #BDSMN1

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

Cozart could not have been more right about Teel "somebody was gon' have to hurt him one day, or he was gon' hurt someone" (46) #BDSMN1

[Joseph Verespej @JVerespej]

This book makes me realize how stupid racism is. There is no reason to why this happens besides ignorance and that is maddening. #BDSMN5

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

@goebema I don't like it either. Honestly it makes me sick to my stomach when I think about it.

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

@JakeElchert @JVerespej told me he sits on the bench

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

It makes me sad to realize that the only jobs blacks could get in his town were as maids or janitors #comeonsociety #BDSMN1

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

@ducklma ya got enough #'s in there?

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

"White people who sympathized with the movement could either keep quiet or risk being seen as traitors" (15) this is 1970 not 1950 #BDSMN1

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

Tyson chewed tobacco and smoked cigarettes?! He was a kid! If a child was seen smoking nowadays there would be serious repercussions #BDSMN1

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

Kids even got involved in these disputes between blacks and whites yet they probably didnt know why they were fighting each other #BDSMN1

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

@jciurlik MLK spoke words of hope for change but teenagers respond more passionately towards action and listened to his words after death

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

How are people okay with the Teels killing a black man? I mean it's 1970, shouldn't they face some major repercussions? #BDSMN1

[Lauren Padgett @padgela]

@goebema did you pee on the lincoln logs like Billy did as well?