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The thing is, white people did talk about it. They bragged about doing it with their friends and family who supported them while anyone who didn't support it looked the other way because they thought it didn't effect them. People talk, people have always talked.
Source: I've spent almost my entire life living in the Southern US. My grandfather's generation was basically pure evil and open about what they did. They also raised the Trumpists with their moral perversion.
Yup, good point. White people who were involved and related definitely also knew about police brutality, they just didn't narrate it as police brutality, but rather as righteous behaviors.
Yeah, racism being well hidden is a much more modern phenomenon. Back then, getting away with it was more about the white people who disagreed looking the other way. Kind of like transphobia, or maybe homophobia now.