I had never even heard of this until a friend passed this along to me. It is an excellent read, although a bit long and heavy. And it's chock-full of links for even more reading if you're up to it. One excerpt from the subhead "Lynching Was Tolerated" that I want to share is this...
While many associate lynchings with hangings, historians say numerous mass killings fit the definition -- from the political violence in New Orleans in 1866, Colfax, Louisiana, in 1873, and Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, to massacres in Atlanta (1906), Springfield, Illinois, (1908) East St. Louis, Illinois, (1917) Tulsa, Oklahoma, (1921) and Rosewood, Florida (1923), to name a few.
I discovered I could copy-n-paste text with links embedded and they still work. Unfortunately, I've learned that if I try to change the color, it f*cks them up. Therefore, the different color. (The memes, of course, are not from the article.)
That last: 100%.
ReplyDeleteThe Tulsa massacre is the one getting the attention. Yet, there were many others that are never talked about. This country has a lot of nasty, nasty history when it comes to "race" relations.
With the latest black people being killed by policemen, things have not much changed in USA.
ReplyDeleteSlavery helped USA to achieve great fortunes and wealth.
Today low wages jobs are the new way to take advantage of those colored people in USA.
With all what is going on in USA to limit voting as in many states like in Texas again colored people are being related to second zone citizens.
Even with the 8 years of Obama's presidency, the racist spirit in USA didn't fade and the coming of DJT in the White House and after just ranimated this white supremacy racist movement that is now invading the web.
Democracy is in danger and living in USA today is no safer for colored people than in 1921.
With no guns limitations, you still live in danger and like in the old farwest.
whkattk - Absolutely.
ReplyDeleteJiEL - Your points are very correct.
I watched PBS and CBS last night on Tulsa, sad, sickening, etc.. So many other towns and cities had the same tragedies. 2021 little has changed!😐😐😐
ReplyDeleteHere in Minneapolis, we had a massacre of a different kind. The Rondo neighborhood was a thriving, alive, connected community. Vital. So when it came time to build our freeway, guess where they chose to run it through? Destroyed the community. Minneapolis' black population has never recovered.
ReplyDeleteLuv chocolate - It's really very sad the lack of progress made in the last 100 years.
ReplyDeleteuptonking - That was done to Portland also, for the freeway.