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Drowned Towns: Is This Black History White Conservatives Are Trying to Hide?
Beyond Tulsa: The Secret History of Flooding Black Towns to Make Lakes
Ah, summer. The time when families head to the nearest body of water to splash around and evade all the stinging insects that breed in landlocked bodies of water. What could be sinister about a good old American lake filled with people jet-skiing over the literal corpses of Black communities destroyed and submerged so that largely white communities can enjoy a Bud Light Lime in the (sort-of) post pandemic fresh air and—wait, we just heard it. And so did Amber Ruffin.

