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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 17, 2021, 10:35 pm
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 15, 2022, 2:28 am
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 7, 2022, 11:07 pm
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[quote]What They Didn't Teach You In School: The Assassination
Of Medgar Evers And The Murderer Who Walked Free For Three
Decades
Medgar Evers is one of the most important Civil Rights activists
in American history. He fought against Jim Crow, was the NAACP's
first field officer in Mississippi, and spearheaded
investigations into some of America's most egregious racial
crimes, including the murder of Emmett Till.
...
Medgar and his brother would walk several miles to their
segregated school, as they were not allowed to attend school
with white children.
...
"I was born in Decatur here in Mississippi, and when we were
walking to school in the first grade white kids in their school
buses would throw things at us and yell filthy things," Evers
stated. "This was a mild start. If you're a kid in Mississippi
this is the elementary course."
"I graduated pretty quickly," Evers continued. "When I was
eleven or twelve a close friend of the family got lynched. I
guess he was about forty years old, married, and we used to play
with his kids. I remember the Saturday night a bunch of white
men beat him to death at the Decatur fairgrounds because he
sassed back a white woman. They just left him dead on the
ground. Everyone in town knew it but never [said] a word in
public."
...
Medgar registered to vote, but found resistance when he and his
brother tried to exercise their right. Medgar, his brother, and
a handful of their friends were threatened at gunpoint when
attempting to vote in a local election by over 200 white men.
Often, racist whites would try to intimidate Blacks who went to
vote, and it would get violent quite frequently.
...
Medgar was appointed as the NAACP's first field officer in
Mississippi in 1954. In this role, Medgar was involved in a few
very high-profile cases.
One such case was that of James Meredith, who became the first
Black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, the
same college that denied Medgar entry.
James' case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which
ruled in his favor. However, when James went back to the
University to enroll in classes, he was met with blockades and
riots, which left two people dead. Angry mobs of racist whites
flew Confederate Flags as they destroyed property and attacked
anyone supporting James. Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent
U.S. Marshals, while President John F. Kennedy dispatched the
military to assist with the deadly situation. 160 of the U.S.
Marshals were wounded, 28 of them shot. Finally, the military
was able to get a handle on the situation and James was able to
enroll in 1962.
Another prominent case that Medgar was monumental in was the
investigation into the murder of Emmett Till.
Medgar opened an investigation into the murder, urging any Black
witnesses to come forward despite the danger they would be in by
speaking out. After securing Black witnesses, Medgar and T. R.
M. Howard helped protect them throughout the trial, even
assisting them in escaping the town after things had concluded.
Despite all this work, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant were
acquitted, and Howard was placed on the KKK's death list... he
was forced to flee Mississippi.
Medgar also fought to clear the name of Civil Rights activist
Clyde Kennard. Kennard was another activist who tried to push
back against segregation in the south, by applying to become the
first Black person to attend Mississippi Southern College (now
the University of Southern Mississippi). Instead of admitting
him, in 1960 the state framed him for petty crime, and sentenced
him to seven years in jail. An all-white jury convicted him in
ten minutes.
Medgar's involvement in such high-profile cases put him in the
crosshairs of the KKK. White supremacists attempted to kill him
many times. His home was firebombed in May 1963, and his family
was threatened on several occasions. On June 12, 1963, white
supremacists made good on their threats and murdered him.
On that fateful night, Medgar had just gotten home. After
parking his car and walking up to his home, he was shot in the
back. His family, who was home, heard the gunshot and found
Medgar in the front yard. He was taken to a hospital but died
within the hour. Just moments before his murder, President
Kennedy had addressed the nation on the importance of the Civil
Rights movement.
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Byron De La Beckwith, a founding member of the White Citizens
Council in Mississippi, was soon named the prime suspect in the
assassination. Local police found the rifle used in the murder
near Medgar's home, and also discerned that it had recently been
fired. Fingerprints on the rifled were immediately connected
back to Byron, based on his military prints on record. Witnesses
had also claimed Byron had been asking around about Medgar's
address. He was arrested several days after the murder, and had
an injury around his eye consistent with the recoil of shooting
a rifle while looking down the scope.
Three trials were held in an attempt to convict Byron. Before
the first one, Byron was sent letters of support and money for
his defense. During the first trial in 1964, two police officers
claimed to have seen Byron in Greenwood, which is roughly 90
miles from Medgar's home, on the night of the assassination.
Byron also claimed his gun was "stolen" before the murder. An
all-white jury was unable to reach a verdict. A retrial was
slated for later that year, but also resulted in a deadlock.
Once again, an all-white jury could not come to a decision and
Byron was set free.
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In 1989, The Clarion-Ledger, a newspaper in Jackson, documented
how in 1964 a legal state agency that supported segregation
assisted Byron's defense team in screening jurors for both
trials against him.
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Byron spent three decades walking around as a free man, boasting
about a murder that he thought he got away with. And in a way,
he almost did. He wasn't convicted until he was in his 70s,
meaning he lived the majority of his life as a white supremacist
free to go about his business until the early 90s.[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 2, 2022, 9:40 pm
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[quote]Lynchings: An untold piece of Asian American history
As the nation enacts a new historic anti-lynching bill into law,
experts say there needs to be increased attention on a dark and
largely untold piece of Asian American history: lynchings that
terrorized communities.
The big picture: Under the new law, which comes after over 200
failed attempts to codify federal anti-lynching legislation, a
crime could be prosecuted as a lynching when a conspiracy to
commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury.
Some of the first anti-Asian crimes that could fall under this
definition were recorded in the 1800s at the height of white
economic anxiety.
An 1871 massacre wiped out 10% of the Chinese community in
Los Angeles. It was one of the most brutal mass lynchings in
U.S. history.
These riots were part of a massive campaign across the U.S.
now known as the Driving Out, which saw mobs regularly attack
Chinese immigrants.
...
The U.S. must educate people on how lynching was used to "demand
subordination" not just among Black Americans but also other
racialized groups, according to Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of
the forthcoming book "Asian American Histories of the United
States."
...
In 1885, a similar act of arson in Wyoming killed 28 Chinese
miners, many of their bodies left mangled and decomposed.
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In 1907 in Washington state, Indian migrant workers became the
target of mob beatings that successfully forced the entire South
Asian population out of Bellingham within 10 days.
Between 1929 and 1930, anti-Filipino riots broke out along the
West Coast as white people felt threatened by growing
interracial relations.
In Watsonville, California, hundreds of white men terrorized
local Filipinos for five days, dragging them out of their homes
and throwing some off a bridge. A Filipino man died after
rioters shot him while he was sleeping.
What they're saying: These are only the tip of the iceberg when
it comes to historic examples of anti-Asian violence, according
to Choy.
"What distinguishes lynching as a form of violence is that
it is precisely done in a way to make the violence public and to
instill fear in the community," Choy noted. Perpetrators largely
went unpunished.[/quote]
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 15, 2022, 4:30 am
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Continuing from:
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some historical context:
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[quote]Bowen Turner is a 19-year-old South Carolina man who
since 2018 has been charged with two sexual assaults. To this
day, he's free. (Photo: Bamberg County Detention Center)
If you’ve not heard of Bowen Turner, don’t worry — that’s by
design.
See, Turner is a 19-year-old South Carolina man who since 2018
has been charged with two sexual assaults. In one case, the
alleged victim is now dead. In the another, the alleged victim
watched as he violated the terms of his house arrest at least 20
times — and on Friday learned that he pleaded guilty to a lesser
charge that won’t even have him register as a sex offender.
There was a third allegation, but law enforcement never brought
charges. To this day, Turner is free.
And all of this proves one thing: The judicial system is working
just fine.
I don’t want to bore you with details, but in 1789 or
thereabout, a bunch of white men decided “to establish the
judicial courts of the United States,” which was signed into law
by the president, the founding father George Washington. The
system created by white men, for white men was basically enacted
to issue justice fairly and properly to white men, because no
one else mattered but white men. Slaves (Black people) couldn’t
even testify against white men, and even if they were hit by a
white person, they (slaves, Black people), couldn’t hit them
back. White women were leaps and bounds above slaves, but they
were still less than white men. They didn’t have the right to
own property, they couldn’t keep their own money, and they
couldn’t vote. But they were still considered a person — granted
a second-class citizen, but a citizen nonetheless.
Basically, “White Cis-Male Lives Matter,” and little has changed
since then.[/quote]
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 20, 2022, 8:25 pm
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[quote]The New York Times published “The 1619 Project,” which
makes a clear and irrefutable argument that racism is not
anecdotal, practiced by a few bad people, but built into our
systems which were created when our country was steeped in (and
getting powerful and rich from) slavery.
This new white concern did not go unnoticed. As the Urban League
publicly stated later, “For a moment, it seemed that we were
ready to wrestle with at least some of the systems perpetrating
disparity at every turn.” Like maybe Black people were starting
to get traction, to get ahead.
And the kids were right: “They hate it.”
“They” being those steeped in white supremacy who make up a
larger percentage of the population than many of us knew. They
came back like a steamroller with new voter suppression laws and
hysterical “anti-CRT” laws in a desperate attempt to push things
back to the way they were. They don’t want Black people voting
in large numbers for candidates with their interests at heart.
And they don’t want to hear the horrific truth about long-term,
unending racial injury that started with kidnapping and
enslaving Africans and hasn’t ended yet.
“They hate it.” They don’t want to acknowledge the depth of
depravity that created enormous wealth and power that we as
whites still benefit from. They don’t want to know the harm
that’s been done. They’re afraid of how it will make their
children feel to hear those stories. Afraid they’ll be
uncomfortable.
What stories? Well, here’s one set right in our fair city of
Louisville. From many accounts, the term we often use for
betrayal, “sold down the river,” was invented here, on those
same Ohio River banks where enslaved people once looked
longingly across to Indiana and freedom. They were held in
chains, many even kept in pens. Yes, you read that right. Pens.
For human beings. Those pens held people who’d been sold and
were awaiting boats that would wrench them away from home, from
loved ones whom they’d never see again, to work on plantations
in the deep south, where the conditions were known to be much
harsher and treatment of slaves much more brutal. It was deeply
dreaded: the greatest betrayal. And thus, the phrase came to be:
“He (she) was sold down the river.”
Does that story make people uncomfortable? We certainly hope so!
We hope it moves us to work for something better. To listen–and
try to right the horrific wrongs of the past.
But for now, Black people are being betrayed again–by white
parents screaming at school board meetings and by white
politicians rushing through voter- and history- suppressing
laws. And, by those who sit by silently as it happens. Once
again: sold down the river.
What do we plan to do about it?[/quote]
It should begin with:
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: May 22, 2022, 4:40 am
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[quote]I have lived in that land for more than six decades now.
And I can still remember when I first began to feel the weight
of that burden, when it dawned on me that my brown skin could
make me a pariah.
Except I didn’t know that word back then, at Miles Elementary
School in Cleveland, where almost all of the other students were
white. I was in fifth grade and we were learning about the
history of “our great country,” as my teacher always called it.
I tried to laugh it off when I was mocked by white classmates,
who thought images of crowded slave ships and Black men being
whipped were cartoonishly funny. I was grateful then that my
brown skin hid the red flush of shame. Some of these were people
I’d considered friends.
And the torment didn’t stop when the school day ended. At a New
Year’s Eve sleepover at the YWCA, which I’d begged for
permission to attend, my younger sister and I were terrorized by
a cabal of white girls who pelted us with the N-word, then
laughed uproariously as others joined in.
We suffered in silence; there were two of us, dozens of them.
...
My mother was born more than a century ago, when the Ku Klux
Klan ruled rural Alabama, torturing and murdering any Black
person who didn’t toe their line. One by one, she and her
siblings migrated north to Cleveland in the 1940s and built new
lives.
I remember how hopeful she felt when we were growing up, at the
apex of the civil rights movement, in a city known then for
progression activism. We marched and protested and voted, and we
clawed our way into the middle class. The future looked
limitless and bountiful for our generation then.
Now I am glad she is not here to see this. Our country is moving
back toward its nakedly racist past, fueled by shameless
politicians, coarse public dialogue and fictional social media
conspiracies.[/quote]
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 4, 2022, 9:41 pm
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[quote]On June 2nd a gathering in Port Jervis, New York will
witness the unveiling of a plaque memorializing the lynching 130
years ago, on June 2, 1892, of Robert Lewis, a local Black
citizen. Though scantly remembered for most of the 20th century,
the horrific incident was infamous in its time, seen as a
portent that lynching, then surging uncontrollably below the
Mason-Dixon Line, was about to extend its tendrils northward.
There had been a sharp rise in the reported number of Black
people killed in this manner: 74 in 1885; 94 in 1889; 113 in
1891. The year 1892 would see the greatest number, 161, almost
one every other day. The nation’s newspapers were rarely without
news of a lynching somewhere, a barbaric crime that Black
leaders such as Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and T. Thomas
Fortune attributed to white resentment of African Americans’
social and economic advance toward equality and full
citizenship, by the presumption that Black people were
inherently criminal, and by white men’s reflexive anxiety about
Black male sexuality and white women.
But what perplexed white Port Jervians and other New Yorkers was
why a lynching had occurred in a village near to New York City
and with so modest an African American population—roughly two
hundred men, women, and children, or 2 percent of its
approximately nine thousand residents. Although Port Jervis was
hardly free from the common social and economic inequities of
the era, and its normalized racism, it had no flagrant history
of anti-Black violence.[/quote]
Which just goes to show that we do not become safer by making
"whites" feel safer. The safer they feel, the more comfortable
they will be to express what has always been in their blood.
[quote]Situated at the confluence of the Delaware and Neversink
Rivers, where the states of New York, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvania meet, it was a largely peaceful, orderly burg,
surrounded by water and mountains, attractive to city folk who
came in summer to fish for trout, canoe in the scenic Delaware,
or enjoy a breeze on the verandas of the local
boardinghouses.[/quote]
Trout do not make "whites" feel unsafe. How do "whites" treat
trout? Why do you think they will treat you any differently?
[quote]In recent years, due to the efforts of a small group of
current and former residents, and the influence of the Black
Lives Matter movement, there has been new interest in the
lynching, arguably the most troubling incident in the town’s
past. But years of silence about the crime have left many
residents, Black and white, substantially unfamiliar with it.
This collective lack of remembering (or remembrance) cannot but
seem determined, a result of the town’s shame over the lynching
itself, as well as the ensuing humiliation when, after vowing to
punish and hold to account those responsible, the local courts
and community failed to do so.
...
A twenty-minute walk will take one by many of the places
involved in the Robert Lewis lynching, from the home of Lena
McMahon to the banks of the nearby Neversink, where she was
allegedly attacked; to the now-abandoned Delaware & Hudson
Canal, along which Lewis was pursued and captured; and to the
lynching site on East Main Street, where white merchants,
railway workers, lawyers, doctors, hoteliers, and factory
workers, most of whom knew one another, and many of whom knew
Robert Lewis, beat him repeatedly and then hoisted by a rope
until he was dead.[/quote]
Similar to how they hoist trout from a fishing line with a hook
on the end?
[quote]My research and writing on civil rights history have,
since the 1980s, been guided largely by a confidence in the
forward advance of racial progress, a faith never unanimous
among citizens of the United States but for many years broadly
assumed. While no one seriously believed Barack Obama’s
presidency would usher in a post-racial nation, there was a
sense that the successes of the modern civil rights movement and
the laws and policies it inspired, though not comprehensive and
not attained without suffering and immense struggle, had at
least moved the country to a place of enlarged racial
understanding and opportunity.
Today, instead of guarded optimism, there is a weary pessimism
that, as the Port Jervis lynching signaled in its time, the
assault on and devaluing of the lives of Black Americans are
neither a regional nor a temporary feature but a national crisis
and, for the foreseeable future, a permanent one.[/quote]
Permanent so long as (or only until) "whites" are prohibited
from reproducing.
[quote]Much like at the end of Reconstruction in the 1870s, when
post–Civil War idealism was supplanted by Southern whites’
bare-knuckle tactics of exclusion and intimidation, so now do we
find ourselves confronting the abandonment of hard-won gains
from the New Deal, the civil rights and environmental movements,
and other progressive causes. Voting rights, gained courthouse
to courthouse by Black Southerners and civil rights workers,
have been gutted by the Supreme Court, and conservative forces
continue to seek creative new ways to curtail and impede them,
targeting Black people and other minorities, as one North
Carolina judicial opinion noted, “with surgical precision.”
Each fortnight brings a new report of the killing of a Black
person by police. “Jim Crow,” a term once seemingly relegated to
the nation’s past, has found new purpose in expressing the harsh
structural conditions of post-prison life for persons formerly
incarcerated, as well as large-scale efforts by states to make
voting inaccessible to Blacks and other minority citizens, while
seizing ever-greater control of whose votes get counted.
...
The crowds of whites who once amassed outside Southern jails
demanding that sheriffs relinquish Black prisoners, or who
forced their way inside to abduct them, have as their
21st-century counterparts the white militiamen, the Oath
Keepers, Three Percenters, and Proud Boys, who invade
state-houses and the Capitol in Washington, plot the kidnapping
of elected officials, and seek to intimidate voters,
legislators, and peaceful protesters. This “mobocratic spirit,”
a phrase Abraham Lincoln used as early as 1838 to describe
vigilantism’s corrosive effect on America, frightfully
insinuates that mob violence is a legitimate means of effecting
political change.[/quote]
It is! Instead of finding it frightening, we must accept that
only anti-racist mobs can defeat racist mobs.
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Re: Trumpism is an echo
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 19, 2022, 11:23 pm
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