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Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 11:40 pm
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Note the section starting how the Republican Party (in 1896 it
was the leftist party), which had many former slaves and ethnic
cooperation allied with the Populist party, which was mostly
Americans of European descent and these people were mostly
farmers. The new Republican-Populist alliance was the Fusion
Party that promptly started to sweep popular support and
elections. This angered the Democratic Party (then the
racist-heavy right wing) and they staged a coup... thus leftists
were not armed well enough then... they should be NOW!
More information here:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/wilmington-massacre
/536457/
Local North Carolina conservatives have considered those
perpetrating this event as local heroes, and recently changed
tone to blame the Dems (now the party with strong leftist
elements) of racism.
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www.huffpost.com/entry/lynchings-black-americans-reconstruction-
eji-report_n_5eea6f94c5b6d4397ade568a
[quote]White mobs and individuals lynched at least 2,000 more
Black Americans than previously documented, according to a new
report from the Equal Justice Initiative.
The report, released Tuesday, documents confirmed lynchings
during the Reconstruction era, from 1865 to 1876, after the end
of the Civil War and Black Americans’ emancipation from slavery.
The group’s previous report on the subject, from 2015, detailed
4,500 racial terror lynchings from 1877 to 1950 — adding up to
nearly 6,500 confirmed lynchings of Black people in the U.S.
from 1865 to 1950.
EJI notes that thousands more lynchings “may never be
documented,” defining lynchings as when Black people were
“attacked, sexually assaulted and terrorized by white mobs and
individuals” who were largely “shielded from arrest and
prosecution.”
The new report details attacks like one from 1865, when six
Black men were lynched in North Carolina after demanding a white
landowner pay them for their work. And the following year in New
Orleans, white mobs attacked people marching for Black voting
rights, killing an estimated 33 Black people.
“We cannot understand our present moment without recognizing the
lasting damage caused by allowing white supremacy and racial
hierarchy to prevail during Reconstruction,” wrote EJI Director
Bryan Stevenson in a news release.
...
The report notes that white perpetrators of violence against
Black people during Reconstruction were “almost never held
accountable,” and many were even “celebrated.”[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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www.yahoo.com/news/racial-violence-pandemic-red-summer-090452290
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[quote]Racial strife flaring across the United States. Black
Americans standing up to societal structures in unpredictable
ways. And people enduring months of a deadly pandemic infecting
millions worldwide, shuttering businesses and heightening fears
of a lengthy economic downturn.
That was 1919, during what would later be coined the "Red
Summer," when communities across America were reeling from white
mobs inciting brutality against Black people and cities were
still wrestling with a third wave of the so-called Spanish flu
pandemic that emerged the previous year.
The story line parallels with today: violence against Black
people, leading to mass demonstrations and calls to end systemic
racism, converging with a months-long coronavirus pandemic. Such
commonality is not lost on historians and scholars of African
American history.
...
What happened during the Red Summer of 1919?
The general mob-led violence against Black people actually began
before the summer in localized incidents.
In the book "Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of
Black America," author Cameron McWhirter described what led up
to a deadly riot in Jenkins County, Georgia, in April, when
Black churches were burned and Black men killed.
It was just the start: "In coming months, similar horrors would
afflict cities and towns across America. The violence that April
Sunday was only the beginning of what would become known as the
Red Summer of 1919, when riots and lynchings spread throughout
the country, causing havoc and harming thousands — yet also
awakening millions of blacks to fight for rights guaranteed
them, but so long denied."
...
Ward said that white people were responding to the "ever-present
white fear of a loss of social status and dominance" and were
"resentful of this disruption of social, economic and political
order."
In addition, the influx of African Americans into northern
cities continued as the Spanish flu spread in 1918 before the
pandemic subsided in the summer of 1919, and whites were blaming
Black migrants for the spread of illness.
Historical accounts also described how white military members,
who had returned to Washington after the end of World War I,
seized on sensationalist rumors of Black men assaulting white
women, which was amplified in D.C.'s newspapers. An estimated 40
people were killed that July in the nation's capital, with
hundreds of federal troops deployed to stamp out the unrest.
...
In recounting those events, The Washington Post wrote that jobs
were scarce at the time, and many whites felt slighted that a
small number of Blacks could secure low-level government jobs.
"Unlike virtually all the disturbances that preceded it — in
which white-on-black violence dominated — the Washington riot of
1919 was distinguished by strong, organized and armed black
resistance, foreshadowing the civil rights struggles later in
the century," according to The Post.
Some of the worst multi-day violence occurred in Chicago, where
about two dozen Black people and 15 white people were killed.
The uprisings were sparked after a Black teenager on a raft,
Eugene Williams, drifted into a whites only section of Lake
Michigan and drowned after a white man began throwing rocks at
him, the Chicago Tribune reported.
From April to November, some 30 riots broke out across the
eastern U.S., with hundreds of accounts of beatings, lynchings
and the burning of churches and buildings. As a result of the
violence, the Ku Klux Klan also saw a resurgence.
...
As bloody as that summer was, it failed to result in any
protections for African Americans, and if anything, Ward said,
"that reign of racial terror, where again the exculpatory work
of the white press, police, grand juries and others ensured that
perpetrators were protected rather than punished, undoubtedly
prolonged the period of American apartheid."
Saje Mathieu, a history professor at the University of
Minnesota, added that some of the violence of 1919 was in many
ways milder in comparison to the "absolute devastation and
destruction" of the massacres in Tulsa, Oklahoma, two years
later and in Rosewood, Florida, in 1923.
The fight for racial justice in 2020 follows a series of
high-profile incidents of Black Americans being killed at the
hands of police or former law enforcement and of Black Americans
having to affirm their place and existence while doing ordinary
things and often facing the threat of police being called on
them.
Mathieu said the blatant racism of 1919 reverberates in other
ways today, including by white women who are caught on viral
videos questioning a Black person's agency and yet don't see
themselves as exhibiting racism. Social media users label them
as a "Karen."[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 2, 2020, 11:42 pm
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[quote]The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in
How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans
In the summer of 1865, just after the Civil War, Union
commanders in the battered port city of Wilmington, N.C.,
appointed a former Confederate general as police chief and
former Confederate soldiers as policemen.
The all-white force immediately set upon newly freed Black
people. Men, women and children were beaten, clubbed and whipped
indiscriminately. A Union officer with the Freedmen’s Bureau
maintained a ledger of daily police assaults: A Black man
whipped 72 times. A Black woman dragged for two miles with a
rope around her neck. A Black man, “his back all raw,” beaten by
police with a buggy trace.
“The policemen are the hardest and most brutal looking and
acting set of civil or municipal officers I ever saw. All look
bad and vicious,” the Union officer reported.
For generations, police and other white authority figures have
perpetuated white supremacy and privilege by assaulting Black
Americans. Slave patrols were an early form of policing. White
police enforced racist post-Civil War Black Code laws and 20th
century Jim Crow segregation. They tolerated, and sometimes
participated in, lynchings of Black men.
Today, the image of a white police officer in Minneapolis
pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck as he pleaded for
mercy has opened a window on America’s unbroken history of
brutality against African-Americans by white men in uniform.
One of the most terrifying examples erupted more than a century
ago, when white supremacist soldiers and police helped hunt down
and kill at least 60 Black men in Wilmington in 1898. The
murders were part of a carefully orchestrated coup that toppled
a multi-racial government in the South’s most progressive
Black-majority city.
Like many police assaults against Black people in American
history, the goal was more than just punishment and humiliation.
It was to prevent black citizens from exercising their
constitutional rights. Today, as American celebrates
Independence Day it is an opportune moment to reflect on
America’s troubled racial history and how to move forward.
The 1898 coup capped a months-long White Supremacy Campaign in
North Carolina designed to strip black men of the vote and
remove them from public office forever. The prime target was
Wilmington, where black men served as councilmen, magistrates
and police officers in a city with a thriving black middle class
and some 65 black doctors, lawyers and educators.
(Today in North Carolina, conservatives in the state legislature
have continued to try to squash the Black vote through voter
suppression laws and racial gerrymandering schemes that have
been stuck down by federal courts as unconstitutional.)
The 1898 coup, plotted by white politicians and businessmen,
would not have been possible without the city’s white soldiers
and police, who led white vigilantes on a killing spree on Nov.
10, 1898. This came after white supremacists had bullied the
white police chief into firing the city’s 10 black policemen.
The soldiers served in two all-white state militias in
Wilmington manned and commanded by white supremacists. Both
units ostensibly reported to the state’s governor, but in fact
served as the private militias of the white supremacists who
directed the coup.
Like politicians in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing, the
coup leaders pressured the governor to call out the militias –
the National Guard of the day – on the pretext that blacks were
rioting. In fact, it was whites who were rioting, led by
soldiers and police. They burned a Black owned newspaper and
shot Black men down in the streets, many of them simply trying
to get home safely.
The militiamen had served in the Spanish-American War in the
summer of 1898 and had not yet been mustered out of federal
service. That meant U.S. soldiers were unleashed against
law-abiding Black citizens of Wilmington – 122 years before
President Trump threatened to deploy the U.S. military against
street protesters.
Like the white vigilantes who were indicted for shooting Ahmaud
Arbery in Georgia after accusing him of burglary, white
vigilantes in Wilmington in 1898 shot Black men accused during
the White Supremacy Campaign of raping white women and stealing
white jobs.
As part of the coup, white supremacists banished leading Black
and white political allies from Wilmington after forcibly
evicting them from office and replacing them with coup leaders.
Militiamen escorted them to the train station at gunpoint. In
the weeks after the coup, more than 2,100 African-Americans fled
Wilmington, turning a black-majority city into a white
supremacist citadel.
It was the most successful and lasting coup in American history.
It instituted white supremacy as official state policy for half
a century and prevented Black citizens from voting in
significant numbers until passage of the Voting Rights Act in
1965. Two years before the coup, 126,000 black men registered to
vote in North Carolina. Four years after the coup, the number
was 6,100.
After the coup, no Black citizen served in public office in
Wilmington until 1972. No Black citizen from North Carolina was
elected to Congress until 1992. No one was prosecuted or
punished for the killings and violence. President William
McKinley ignored pleas from Black leaders to send in federal
marshals or U.S. troops to protect Black citizens.
The coup was the natural outgrowth of North Carolina’s – and
America’s – long history of relying on white police to
perpetuate white supremacy amid fears of Black uprisings.
In 1831, white supremacist newspapers in North Carolina
published hysterical stories warning, falsely, of an army of
well-armed slaves marching from Virginia to Wilmington to kill
white people, torch the city, and launch a national slave
rebellion during Nat Turner’s famous Virginia slave uprising.
Scores of innocent slaves were lynched after being seized by
white police and vigilantes in North Carolina towns. In
Wilmington, four slaves accused of plotting a “diabolical”
uprising were rounded up by police and decapitated by a white
mob. Their severed heads were mounted on poles along a public
highway known as “Niggerhead Road,” a name that endured until
the 1950s.
More than 60 years after Nat Turner’s execution, his slave
revolt was cited by some white supremacists in Wilmington as
justification for the militia and police violence required to
put down a purported black riot in 1898.
After the coup, the city’s fired Black policemen were replaced
by white supremacists, most of whom had participated in the coup
and murders. White police enforced new city policies that
replaced Black workers with whites. Police often used brute
force to ensure that newly passed Jim Crow laws were obeyed by
Black citizens.
During the 1898 campaign, white police stood by as nightriders
burst into black homes in and around Wilmington, whipping Black
men and threatening to kill them if they dared register to vote.
On Election Day in November 1898, vigilantes beat Black voters
and stuffed ballot boxes in full view of white policemen.
Just a week ago in June 2020, three Wilmington police officers
were fired after a recording emerged in which they used racial
slurs as one officer vowed to “go out and start slaughtering”
black people and “wipe ‘em off the f—-ing map.”
A Democratic Party Hand Book, published in the summer of 1898 by
what was then the party of white supremacy, laid bare the
lasting intentions of the men who plotted Wilmington’s white
coup: “This is a white man’s country and white men must control
and govern it.”[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 11, 2020, 3:14 am
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 13, 2020, 11:41 pm
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[quote]The conditions in America today do not much resemble
those of 1968. In fact, the best analogue to the current moment
is the first and most consequential such awakening—in 1868. The
story of that awakening offers a guide, and a warning. In the
1860s, the rise of a racist demagogue to the presidency, the
valor of Black soldiers and workers, and the stories of outrages
against the emancipated in the South stunned white northerners
into writing the equality of man into the Constitution. The
triumphs and failures of this anti-racist coalition led America
to the present moment. It is now up to their successors to
fulfill the promises of democracy, to make a more perfect union,
to complete the work of Reconstruction.
They came for George Ruby in the middle of the night, as many as
50 of them, their faces blackened to conceal their identities.
As the Confederate veterans dragged Ruby from his home, they
mocked him for having believed that he would be safe in Jackson,
Louisiana: “S’pose you thought the United States government
would protect you, did you?” They dragged him at least a mile,
to a creek, where they beat him with a paddle and left him,
half-dressed and bleeding, with a warning: Leave, and never
return.
...
As the historian Barry A. Crouch recounts in The Dance of
Freedom, Ruby warned that the formerly enslaved were beset by
the “fiendish lawlessness of the whites who murder and outrage
the free people with the same indifference as displayed in the
killing of snakes or other venomous reptiles,”[/quote]
This description is accurate. Indifference, not hate, is the
attitude of rightists. Only leftists are capable of hate.
[quote]The last thing most white Americans wanted was to be
dragged through a bitter conflict over expanding the boundaries
of American citizenship. They wanted to rebuild the country and
get back to business. John Wilkes Booth had been moved to
assassinate Abraham Lincoln not by the Confederate collapse, but
by the president’s openness to extending the franchise to
educated Black men and those who had fought for the Union, an
affront Booth described as “**** citizenship.”
Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, viewed the Radical
Republican project as an insult to the white men to whom the
United States truly belonged. A Tennessee Democrat and
self-styled champion of the white working class, the president
believed that “Negroes have shown less capacity for government
than any other race of people,” and that allowing the formerly
enslaved to vote would eventually lead to “such a tyranny as
this continent has never yet witnessed.” Encouraged by Johnson’s
words and actions, southern elites worked to reduce the
emancipated to conditions that resembled slavery in all but
name.
Throughout the South, when freedmen signed contracts with their
former masters, those contracts were broken; if they tried to
seek work elsewhere, they were hunted down; if they reported
their concerns to local authorities, they were told that the
testimony of Black people held no weight in court. When they
tried to purchase land, they were denied; when they tried to
borrow capital to establish businesses, they were rejected; when
they demanded decent wages, they were met with violence.
In the midst of these terrors and denials, the emancipated
organized as laborers, protesters, and voters, forming the Union
Leagues and other Republican clubs that would become the basis
of their political power. Southern whites insisted that the
freedmen were unfit for the ballot, even as they witnessed their
sophistication in protest and organization. In fact, what the
former slave masters feared was not that Black people were
incapable of self-government, but the world the emancipated
might create.
From 1868 to 1871, Black people in the South faced a “wave of
counter-revolutionary terror,” the historian Eric Foner has
written, one that “lacks a counterpart either in the American
experience or in that of the other Western Hemisphere societies
that abolished slavery in the nineteenth century.” Texas courts,
according to Foner, “indicted some 500 white men for the murder
of blacks in 1865 and 1866, but not one was convicted.” He cites
one northern observer who commented, “Murder is considered one
of their inalienable state rights.”
The system that emerged across the South was so racist and
authoritarian that one Freedmen’s Bureau agent wrote that the
emancipated “would be just as well off with no law at all or no
Government.” Indeed, the police were often at the forefront of
the violence. In 1866, in New Orleans, police joined an attack
on Republicans organizing to amend the state constitution;
dozens of the mostly Black delegates were killed. General Philip
Sheridan wrote in a letter to Ulysses S. Grant that the incident
“was an absolute massacre by the police … perpetrated without
the shadow of a necessity.” The same year, in Memphis, white
police officers started a fight with several Black Union
veterans, then used the conflict as a justification to begin
firing at Black people—civilians and soldiers alike—all over the
city. The killing went on for days.
These stories began to reach the North in bureaucratic
dispatches like Ruby’s, in newspaper accounts, and in testimony
to the congressional committee on Reconstruction. Northerners
heard about Lucy Grimes of Texas, whose former owner demanded
that she beat her own son, then had Grimes beaten to death when
she refused. Her killers went unpunished because the court would
not hear “negro testimony.” Northerners also heard about Madison
Newby, a former Union scout from Virginia driven by “rebel
people” from land he had purchased, who testified that former
slave masters were “taking the colored people and tying them up
by the thumbs if they do not agree to work for six dollars a
month.” And they heard about Glasgow William, a Union veteran in
Kentucky who was lynched in front of his wife by the Ku Klux
Klan for declaring his intent to vote for “his old commander.”
(Newspapers sympathetic to the white South dismissed such
stories; one called the KKK the “phantom of diseased
imaginations.”)
...
“I saw in various hospitals negroes, women as well as men, whose
ears had been cut off or whose bodies were slashed with knives
or bruised with whips, or bludgeons, or punctured with shot
wounds. Dead negroes were found in considerable number in the
country roads or on the fields, shot to death, or strung upon
the limbs of trees. In many districts the colored people were in
a panic of fright, and the whites in a state of almost insane
irritation against them.”
When Schurz returned to Washington, Johnson refused to hear his
findings. The president had already set his mind to maintaining
the United States as a white man’s government. He told Schurz
that a report was unnecessary, then silently waited for Schurz
to leave.
...
In his “Swing Around the Circle” tour, Johnson gave angry
speeches before raucous crowds, comparing himself to Lincoln,
calling for some Radical Republicans to be hanged as traitors,
and blaming the New Orleans riot on those who had called for
Black suffrage in the first place, saying, “Every drop of blood
that was shed is upon their skirts and they are responsible.” He
blocked the measures that Congress took up to protect the rights
of the emancipated, describing them as racist against white
people. He told Black leaders that he was their “Moses,” even as
he denied their aspirations to full citizenship.[/quote]
Does this remind you of anyone?
[quote]Black Americans today do not face the same wave of terror
they did in the 1860s. Still, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and
Ahmaud Arbery were only the most recent names Americans learned.
There was Eric Garner, who was choked to death on a New York
City sidewalk during an arrest as he rasped, “I can’t breathe.”
There was Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, who
was shot in the back while fleeing an officer. There was Laquan
McDonald in Chicago, who was shot 16 times by an officer who
kept firing even as McDonald lay motionless on the ground. There
was Stephon Clark, who was gunned down while using a cellphone
in his grandmother’s backyard in Sacramento, California. There
was Natasha McKenna, who died after being tased in a Virginia
prison. There was Freddie Gray, who was seen being loaded into
the back of a Baltimore police van in which his spinal cord was
severed. There was Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old in Cleveland with a
toy gun who was killed by police within moments of their
arrival.[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 23, 2020, 2:35 am
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Re: Trump disapproval
By: Starling Date: January 3, 2021, 5:42 pm
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Want to understand Trump? Look at George Wallace
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Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace is shown in this Oct. 19, 1964
file photo speaking in Glen Burnie, Md. at a rally supporting
then Republican presidential candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater.
[Goldwater was a Jew]
Wallace, the one-time firebrand segregationist who was paralyzed
by a would-be assassin's bullet as he campaigned for the
presidency in 1972, died Sunday, Sept. 13, 1998. He was 79.
[quote]
In late September 1968, presidential election polls showed that
third-party candidate George Wallace's campaign was surging.
With the support of a quarter of white voters, Wallace was
within single digits of the Democratic nominee, Vice President
Hubert Humphrey. Wallace's dominance in Southern states
threatened to prevent any candidate from securing an electoral
college majority, which would throw the November election into
the House of Representatives.
His was an extraordinary rise. In his inaugural speech as
Alabama governor just five years earlier, Wallace had promised
“segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
He then gained national attention by personally standing in a
schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama to block the
admission of two black students.
By 1968, he seldom used explicitly racist language but instead
demanded “law and order” and railed against “crime,” “drugs,”
“welfare mothers,” “forced busing” and “big city thugs.” He
created the racially encoded language that still haunts our
politics.
So when President Trump whips up rallies with his thinly veiled
racist attacks on brown-skinned immigrants, Muslims and
unpatriotic blacks, it is not a new development. The racial
divide has been a political tool for those willing to use it for
50 years. As former President Obama pointed out in his Sept. 7
speech: “It did not start with Donald Trump. He is a symptom,
not the cause. He's just capitalizing on resentments that
politicians have been fanning for years.”
In 1968, the white backlash to the civil rights movement and the
‘60s urban riots drew voters to Wallace. But others took note -
particularly Richard Nixon's campaign advisor Kevin Phillips
who, in his book “The Emerging Republican Majority,” saw the
potential of a major partisan realignment. Over the next six
years, President Nixon adapted a more subtle version of the
Wallace message, appealing to what he called “the silent
majority.” In the years that followed, white voters in the once
solidly Democratic South became the bedrock of the GOP.
The Republican Party's Southern strategy initially focused on
shifting voters with a segregationist bent to the party, but it
proved adaptable to other whites uneasy with the increasing role
of minorities in American life and politics. These appeals
resurfaced many times over the years, most memorably in the
infamous Willie Horton ad during George H.W. Bush's 1988
campaign, but also in the symbolism of Ronald Reagan's decision
to make his first 1980 campaign appearance at the Neshoba County
Fair in Philadelphia, Miss. - where three civil rights workers
were murdered in 1964. With the election of Obama and a growing
awareness that whites will eventually be a minority in America,
the ground for such appeals has stayed quite fertile.
When Trump descended from Trump Tower in 2015, he immediately
set himself apart from the gaggle of GOP presidential contenders
by replacing the coy racial language of his predecessors with an
unfiltered bullhorn. He has railed against prominent black
leaders and athletes, talked about brown-skinned immigrants as
murderers and rapists, and insisted dark-skinned Muslims
constitute such a threat that we need to ban travel from entire
countries.
Wallace's bid for the presidency faltered in its final weeks,
but a very small shift of voters in four states would have
deadlocked the race. Wallace poured gasoline on the fire of
racial division first, but Trump managed to carry that flame all
the way into the White House. Who would have predicted that 50
years after the 1968 election, polls would show that more than
half of Americans think their president is a racist?
Many factors have contributed to today's tribalistic politics,
but race remains the bedrock of that division. Transcending
racism is essential if our government is to break out of its
current paralysis. If we do not succeed and Wallace's legacy of
dividing us by race continues to shape American political life,
then perhaps he won after all.
[/quote]
JJ had an excellent essay on Dixie that included a section on
Wallace.
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: guest5 Date: January 4, 2021, 12:58 pm
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[quote]Many factors have contributed to today's tribalistic
politics, but race remains the bedrock of that division.
Transcending racism is essential if our government is to break
out of its current paralysis.[/quote]
That sentence alone gives me some hope that Americans will get
their act together and save America before it's too late. If
only more Americans spoke like this and used similar
vocabulary....
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 21, 2021, 9:33 pm
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What I was saying earlier:
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[quote]I regret to inform you all that history will not save
America from itself
I know you've been hearing this proclamation on network news and
reading it in columns for years.
"History will judge us." "History will repudiate Donald Trump
and the January 6 rioters."
...
This sounds good, but there is a danger in the notion that
history will reveal the truth of our moment and sort the good
from the bad.
...
The past does not change, but our telling of it does. Americans
are famous for concealment by omission. It is only in the last
year or two that there has been widespread awareness of the
Tulsa Massacre of 1921, for example, when racists destroyed
"Black Wall Street" and murdered the people who lived there in a
fit of organized rage.
That was only one of our country's multiple genocides against
Black Americans, but we don't talk about a lot of those. They
aren't pleasant, and they do not fit in with the narrative that
America is the longest standing multi-racial democracy in the
world.
Just as it was easier for Americans in the past to forget the
importance of the Tulsa Massacre, it could be easier for
Americans in the future to forget about the ugliness that led to
the January 6 attack on The Capitol.
It's also possible that future Americans could manipulate the
events around January 6. We already saw that happen immediately
after the attack. Some right wing media tried to pin the blame
on Antifa and polling indicates that now that what half of
Republicans believe. It's quite possible that future generations
could believe that as well.[/quote]
In short, history is written by the victors. To assume history
will agree with us is to assume we will win. Instead of assuming
we will win, we should focus on making sure we actually win.
But no, "Americans" are not famous for concealment by omission.
Westerners are. "Americans" did not find it easy to forget the
Tulsa Massacre. Americans were the victims in the Tulsa
Massacre! It was the Western occupiers, who massacred those
Americans, who also found it easy to forget it.
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 1, 2021, 10:29 pm
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[quote]White mobs rioted in Washington in 1848 to defend
slaveholders' rights after 76 Black enslaved people staged an
unsuccessful mass escape on a boat
...
On the night of April 15, the Pearl left Washington. Seventy-six
Black men, women and children, having quietly left area farms,
hid beneath the deck. Drayton and Sayres steered the ship down
the Potomac River. They were bound for Philadelphia, where
slavery was illegal.
The fugitives did not get far. Owners soon noticed their absence
and formed a posse to find them. The posse, aboard a steamboat,
overtook and commandeered the Pearl as it entered Chesapeake Bay
on April 17. The next day, the fugitives and their white
abettors were marched through Washington and thrown in the city
jail.
...
Furious at the conspirators’ challenge to the social order,
Washington’s white population wanted to punish someone. With
Drayton and Sayres awaiting trial behind bars, white
supremacists turned against the abolitionist press.
...
The nights of April 18 and 19, thousands gathered outside the
National Era’s offices. They gave speeches and spread a false
rumor about journalists’ involvement in the Pearl escape. The
protesters’ leaders reportedly included U.S. government clerks.
Soon the protesters turned violent. They threw rocks at the
building the first night and intended to destroy it the second.
...
James K. Polk, the nation’s president, both defended slavery and
enriched himself by it. He enslaved more than 50 people on his
Mississippi cotton plantation. While editing his letters, the
final volume of them just published, I often read his complaints
about escapes from there. Like other slave owners, he relied on
relatives and paid agents to capture, return and physically
punish the fugitives.
After the Pearl escape, Polk shared the rioters’ belief in white
supremacy and their indignation at resistance to enslavement. He
also shared their hostility toward abolitionists and pro-reform
newspapers, blaming those in his diary for the whole incident:
“The outrage committed by stealing or seducing the slaves … had
produced the excitement & the threatened violence on the
abolition press.”
...
Captains Drayton and Sayres suffered for their efforts.
Convicted of illegally transporting slaves, they remained
incarcerated until President Millard Fillmore pardoned them in
1852.
Even worse off were the people they had helped escape.
Abolitionists bought a very few their liberty, but nearly all
returned to slavery. Many were sold farther south, more distant
than ever from their dream of freedom.[/quote]
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 12, 2021, 1:57 am
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[quote]Anti-White Watch, a platform “dedicated to documenting
bias, policies, hate, and violence directed at ethnic-European
people worldwide.” Its main web portal maintains a heat map and
database of alleged anti-white incidents—focusing on accounts of
brutal violence supposedly enacted by non-white perpetrators,
pulled from across the web by admins and readers. It also
catalogues numerous alleged hate-crime “hoaxes,” incidents that
many on the right believe malicious actors—often assumed to be
liberal elites—either inflate or fully fabricate in order to
stoke racial tensions for their benefit, and to slander white
people as racists.
“They try to both minimize the apparent threat from the far
right,” Kurt Braddock, an expert on white-supremacist
communication and radicalization strategies at American
University, told The Daily Beast, “and to make it seem like the
real threat to America is minorities.”
...
White bigots started fabricating accounts of violence allegedly
committed by non-white people, especially Black men, at least as
far back as the antebellum era. Initially, these tales served as
a justification for America’s uniquely brutal form of slavery,
and wider racist legal framework. After the Civil War, the same
sort of fear-mongering anecdotes were repurposed to support
segregation and other forms of oppression, as well as brutal
reprisals against any non-white person who (literally) so much
as looked at a white person wrong.
...
These new efforts seem to be modeling themselves on the
Anti-Defamation League[/quote]
Reminder:
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