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       Re: Trumpism is an echo
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 22, 2022, 11:29 pm
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  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/editorial-story-jay-proves-racist-163741292.html
       [quote]As Gov. Ron DeSantis and loyalist legislators carry on a
       campaign to control and silence curriculum pertaining to the
       role historic racism has played in shaping America, research
       from local historian Tom Garner puts a harsh light on the moral
       and factual wrongness of how Florida Republicans are trying to
       manipulate public education and whitewash history that's already
       been hidden for far too long.
       The fact is that historic racism from white Americans against
       Black Americans continues to shape the places we call home
       today. The town of Jay is a living local example of that which
       contradicts the dishonest "culture wars" being pushed by Florida
       politicians.
       As reported by Jim Little, in the early 1920s the Jay area was
       home to as many as 175 Black residents, almost all of whom were
       farmers. Today, there are only 13 Black residents in the Jay
       area and only four in the town itself, according to 2020 census
       data.
       What triggered that exodus of generations of local black farmers
       was a story largely hidden from public knowledge. After nearly
       15 years of research, Garner explains how an argument between a
       Black farmer and a white farmer started it all.
       In short, when a white farmer became angry that he could not
       immediately use a piece of farming equipment owned by the Black
       farmer, he attacked the Black farmer with an iron bar. The Black
       farmer pulled out a gun and shot the white farmer in self
       defense. But he was forced to flee from being lynched before he
       was arrested. The resulting uproar from white outrage in the
       1920's drove nearly the entire population of Black farmers from
       their land by 1930 and Jay infamously became a "sundown town" in
       the decades afterward.
       ...
       the story shows how vicious and deep rooted Southern racism
       drove generations of family off of land and totally reshaped a
       town that would most likely look extremely different today had
       those Black families and farmers been allowed to exist freely in
       peace.
       ...
       And this hard, local history underscores the shameful effort by
       Florida's political class to whitewash, control and manipulate
       education and history that has already been buried for far too
       long.[/quote]
       Any plans to give the land back?
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       Re: Trumpism is an echo
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 23, 2022, 9:51 pm
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       Re: Trumpism is an echo
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 3, 2022, 5:27 pm
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  HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/01/race-republicans-stephen-miller-trump/
       [quote]Political appeals to White insecurity are now explicit
       The story of racial politics in the United States over the last
       half-century isn’t complicated. The passage of the Voting Rights
       Act helped solidify African American support for Democrats — and
       provided an opportunity for Republicans in areas hostile to the
       expansion of voting rights for Blacks.
       ...
       Instead of talking specifically about limiting the power of
       Black Americans (as was common in the Jim Crow era), Republican
       candidates talked about issues with obvious racial subtexts:
       integration efforts, states’ rights, support for social
       services. Richard M. Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign focused
       on crime — very much with the understanding of how that focus
       would be interpreted by White Americans.
       In recent years, the facade has slipped. Former president Donald
       Trump’s appeals to White insecurity were far more explicit than
       those of prior political candidates. That was in part because he
       shared that insecurity and saw how it played in conservative
       media. But it was also timing: A surge in immigration in 2014
       and the emergence of Black Lives Matter that same year
       heightened the concerns of heavily White older [s]Americans[/s].
       This was measurable and measured.
       ...
       it is a non-insignificant effort to make a very specific,
       unsubtle appeal to the concerns of White [s]Americans[/s].
       ...
       The right’s backlash against this vague thing called “woke” is
       largely a function of treating individual calls for respecting
       minority voices as somehow being a systemic call to do so. It is
       the idea that there is a hierarchy of power that exerts itself
       outside of the law and forces compliance through shaming and
       compliance. So some professor at San Diego State who puts
       “she/her” in her Twitter bio becomes part of the vanguard of
       organized oppression against real [s]America[/s].
       This idea that Whites are disadvantaged is cultural and
       generational and amplified repeatedly in an increasingly
       unconstrained right-wing media. Miller’s unsubtle intertwining
       of hostility to immigration and race manifests in this ad that
       specifically asserts that White [s]America[/s] is on the
       decline.
       The appeals used to be coded, quiet. Present and identifiable,
       but shying away from specific “they’re coming for you” language.
       The coding is gone. The elevation of racial fear is explicit.
       The Southern strategy is gone; the Jim Crow appeals to Blacks
       usurping power are back.
       That PRRI poll found that two-thirds of Republicans think
       American culture and way of life have changed for the worse
       since 1950. The America First Legal ad is nostalgic for that era
       in all the wrong ways.[/quote]
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       Re: Demographic Blueshift
       By: rp Date: November 19, 2022, 12:10 am
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       Re: Trumpism is an echo
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 20, 2022, 2:00 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-donald-trump-running-president-120000877.html
       [quote]Trump was, and continues to be, the chief executive not
       of a nation, or of the Republican Party, or even of a cult, but
       of a culture — namely a culture of white supremacy.
       This is actually worse than it sounds. Even very “woke”
       Americans tend to see white supremacy as an isolated dynamic
       synonymous with racism, the “bad” America. But what many people
       don’t realize is that white supremacy is a culture that is much
       broader and deeper than that. It is about racialized power, an
       assumed authority of white people (chiefly men) to set and
       enforce the social and moral order as they see fit, often in the
       service of values that on their face sound noble, like tradition
       or family.
       In this culture, the presidency, electoral politics, the
       Constitution, rule of law, democratic ideals, liberalism,
       decency — all are incidental. They can never matter as much as
       white peoples’ ultimate right to power.
       The gravitational pull of white supremacy in America is not new.
       It is part of who we’ve always been. What is new is that in
       2022, under the increasingly thin guise of conservatism — and
       greatly aided by the internet, social media and big media like
       Fox News — the culture of white supremacy has gone fully, almost
       gleefully mainstream. Republican policy agendas have been
       replaced with relentless attacks on critical race theory and the
       whole notion of social justice
       ...
       what is particularly worrisome is that Trump doesn’t have to win
       elections for this culture to persist. As long as Trump remains
       Trump — unapologetically bigoted, xenophobic, right in all
       circumstances — he’ll have loyal supporters in his culture war.
       Elections are just a technicality.
       This is dangerous because in 2022, this culture war is
       increasingly veering toward actual combat. American history has
       been written in violence, most often perpetrated by whites
       against the “Other” — Indigenous folks, Black people, immigrants
       of color.[/quote]
       Yes:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-we-lose/
       Which is why we need:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/firearms/
       Continuing:
       [quote]a majority of Republicans agree with the sentiment that
       “the American way of life is disappearing so fast” that “they
       may have to use force to save it.” Many of these Republicans
       don’t fit the typical profile of an extremist, at least not on
       the surface. “Those committing far-right violence — particularly
       planned violence rather than spontaneous hate crimes — are older
       and more established than the typical terrorist and violent
       criminal,” she writes. “They often hold jobs, are married and
       have children. Those who attend church or belong to community
       groups are more likely to hold violent, conspiratorial beliefs.
       They are not isolated ‘lone wolves,’ they are part of a focused
       community that echoes their ideas.”
       ...
       “the bedrock idea uniting right-wing communities who condone
       violence is that white Christian men in the United States are
       under cultural and demographic threat and require defending —
       and that it is the Republican Party and Donald Trump, in
       particular, who will safeguard their way of life.” Case in
       point: talk about civil war rose exponentially — by nearly 3,000
       percent — after the Justice Department’s search of Mar-a-Lago.
       ...
       In one of the most indelible moments captured on video during
       the Capitol riots, white rioters surrounded and screamed
       “fucking n-----r” at a Black cop.
       ...
       White supremacy is meant for all white people, whether they
       approve of it or not; the culture war spearheaded by Trump is
       therefore a white problem and has to be cast as such, and fought
       as such.
       But that’s not happening, even in the wake of the midterm
       defeats. Trump and his ilk have faced little organized
       resistance to an ecosystem that benefits far too many. For all
       the anger and disgust with Trumpism there aren’t enough white
       people speaking forcefully against white supremacy to counter
       those who are speaking forcefully to it. Joe Biden, for example,
       has denounced white supremacy, but he was careful to describe it
       as a fringe ideology unique to MAGA Republicans, not an
       ecosystem that touches everyone and has become self-sustaining.
       That reasoning is less than convincing.
       ...
       the central question of whether white supremacy will hold or
       yield to a multiracial society started with the Civil War and
       never went away.
       ...
       “Democrats have no cultural competence,” Phillips says. “They
       suffer from implicit bias, and ignorance.” Meaning that while
       the party lauds diversity and justice, and now features Black
       people and people of color in the ranks of top leadership, it
       has always been loath to tackle white supremacy head-on.
       ...
       the moment’s demand for meaningful racial change that centers
       white supremacy as the enemy remains a model for a powerful kind
       of new politics, where a multiracial coalition of Americans push
       for equitable change, at the ballot box and in the
       boardroom.[/quote]
       Hence:
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       Re: Trumpism is an echo
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 12, 2022, 6:18 pm
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  HTML https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/racist-lawmakers-immigrantion-laws-attorneys-tactic
       [quote]Inside the courthouse where Hartzler worked as an
       attorney with the Federal Defenders of San Diego, hundreds of
       distraught parents faced criminal charges of entering the US
       without authorization, which former president Donald Trump used
       to separate them from their children.
       ...
       If defense attorneys could prove that it was unconstitutional
       and inherently racist, a judge would strike the entire thing,
       potentially affecting hundreds of cases.
       Their research into the law's formation bolstered their case. It
       showed how congressional lawmakers in the early 1900s invoked
       overt racism to justify the legislation at the time, discussing
       how the “mixture blood” of white, Native Americans, and Black
       people would inflict “great penalty” on the US. They also said
       Mexicans were “illiterate, unclean, peonized masses” who were
       “poisoning the American citizen.”
       The federal defender’s investigation into the laws relied
       heavily on research already done by UCLA history professor Kelly
       Lytle Hernández, who discovered and documented how eugenicists
       shaped these laws.
       ...
       When the laws that form the basis of the modern immigration
       system were passed in the 1920s, some members of Congress openly
       embraced eugenics, supported segregation, and used racist
       language.
       When Congress passed the National Origins Act of 1924, which
       restricted how many immigrants could enter the US, particularly
       non-Europeans, it exempted people from the Western Hemisphere,
       including Mexicans. This upset lawmakers who wanted to restrict
       all immigration from Mexico, but those efforts failed under
       pressure from employers, particularly those in agriculture.
       During attempts to restrict immigration from non-European
       countries, US lawmakers heard testimony from a eugenicist who
       said that controlling which immigrants were allowed in was the
       best way to promote “race conservation,” and compared drafters
       of deportation laws to “successful breeders of thoroughbred
       horses.”
       Sen. Coleman Livingston Blease, a Democrat from South Carolina
       who defended lynching and supported segregation, proposed a
       solution regarding Mexican immigrants that would appease
       nativists and employers: make crossing the border without
       authorization a crime. It would force Mexican workers to enter
       only through a port of entry, allowing the US to control how
       many entered while ensuring that employers had enough of the
       laborers they depended on. The law making it a crime to enter
       the US without authorization was approved in 1929.
       For employers, undocumented workers became an easily exploitable
       group who could be threatened with deportation and jail time.
       Decades later, the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act upheld
       the system established by the 1924 law, though it granted
       immigration quotas to mostly Western and Northern European
       countries. The law also reenacted illegal entry and reentry.
       In a court filing for one of Hartzler’s cases, she pointed to a
       925-page report that served as the basis for the 1952 statute
       that repeatedly uses the term “wetback” to prove Congress sought
       to discriminate against Latinos. Sen. Pat McCarran, a Democrat
       from Nevada and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, used
       “wetback” — a racist term originally referring to Latinos who
       swam across the Rio Grande — to refer to both authorized and
       unauthorized immigrants.
       “There is a flood of people who come across the boundary. They
       are called wet-backs, and they come across legally or illegally
       during the various harvest seasons,” court records quote
       McCarran as saying during a hearing.
       The report would go on to state that the purpose of the US
       immigration system was to “maintain the balance of the various
       elements in our white population.”
       ...
       These laws were also the beginning of the association in the US
       between undocumented immigrants and criminality, which hit a
       peak during the Trump administration, Gonzalez O'Brien
       said.[/quote]
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       Re: Trumpism is an echo
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 9, 2023, 4:12 pm
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  HTML https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-repatriation-drives-mexico-deportation
       [quote]The U.S. Deported a Million of Its Own Citizens to Mexico
       During the Great Depression
       Up to 1.8 million people of Mexican descent—most of them
       American-born—were rounded up in informal raids and deported in
       an effort to reserve jobs for white people.
       ...
       These were the “repatriation drives,” a series of informal raids
       that took place around the United States during the Great
       Depression. Local governments and officials deported up to 1.8
       million people to Mexico, according to research conducted by
       Joseph Dunn, a former California state senator. Dunn estimates
       around 60 percent of these people were actually American
       citizens, many of them born in the U.S. to first-generation
       immigrants. For these citizens, deportation wasn’t
       “repatriation”—it was exile from their country.
       ...
       The logic behind these raids was that Mexican immigrants were
       supposedly using resources and working jobs that should go to
       white Americans affected by the Great Depression. These
       deportations happened not only in border states like California
       and Texas, but also in places like Michigan, Colorado, Illinois,
       Ohio and New York. In 2003, a Detroit-born U.S. citizen named
       José Lopez testified before a California legislative committee
       about his family’s 1931 deportation to Michoacán, a state in
       Western Mexico.
       “I was five years old when we were forced to relocate,” he said.
       “I…bec[a]me very sick with whooping cough, and suffered very
       much, and it was difficult to breathe.” After both of his
       parents and one brother died in Mexico, he and his surviving
       siblings managed to return to the U.S. in 1945. “We were lucky
       to come back,” he said. “But there are others that were not so
       fortunate.”
       The raids tore apart families and communities, leaving lasting
       trauma for Mexican Americans who remained in the U.S. as well.
       Former California State Senator Martha M. Escutia has said that
       growing up in East Los Angeles, her immigrant grandfather never
       even walked to the corner grocery store without his passport for
       fear of being stopped and deported. Even after he became a
       naturalized citizen, he continued to carry it with him.
       The deportation of U.S. citizens has always been
       unconstitutional, yet scholars argue the way in which
       “repatriation drives” deported non-citizens was
       unconstitutional, too.
       “One of the issues is the ‘repatriation’ took place without any
       legal protections in place or any kind of due process,” says
       Kevin R. Johnson, a dean and professor of public interest law
       and Chicana/o studies at the University of California, Davis,
       School of Law. “So you could argue that all of them were
       unconstitutional, all of them were illegal, because no modicum
       of process was followed.”
       Instead, local governments and officers with little knowledge of
       immigrants’ rights simply arrested people and put them on
       trucks, buses or trains bound for Mexico, regardless of whether
       they were documented immigrants or even native-born citizens.
       Deporters rounded up children and adults however they could,
       often raiding public places where they thought Mexican Americans
       hung out. In 1931, one Los Angeles raid rounded up more than 400
       people at La Placita Park and deported them to Mexico.[/quote]
       Nothing has changed:
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       Continuing:
       [quote]Although there was no federal law or executive order
       authorizing the 1930s raids, President Herbert Hoover’s
       administration, which used the racially-coded slogan, “American
       jobs for real Americans,” implicitly approved of them. His
       secretary of labor, William Doak, also helped pass local laws
       and arrange agreements that prevented Mexican Americans from
       holding jobs. Some laws banned Mexican Americans from government
       employment, regardless of their citizenship status. Meanwhile,
       companies like Ford, U.S. Steel and the Southern Pacific
       Railroad agreed to lay off thousands of Mexican American
       workers.[/quote]
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/ethnonepotism/
       Continuing, the results were exactly as I have repeatedly
       attempted to explain:
       [quote]modern economists who’ve studied the effect of the 1930s
       “repatriation drives” on cities argue the raids did not boost
       local economies. “The repatriation of Mexicans, who were mostly
       laborers and farm workers, reduced demand for other jobs mainly
       held by natives, such as skilled craftsman and managerial,
       administrative and sales jobs,” write economists in a 2017
       academic paper circulated by the non-partisan National Bureau of
       Economic Research. “In fact, our estimates suggest that it may
       have further increased their levels of unemployment and
       depressed their wages.”[/quote]
       Another article from the same site:
  HTML https://www.history.com/news/the-brutal-history-of-anti-latino-discrimination-in-america
       [quote]In 1931, police officers grabbed Mexican-Americans in the
       area, many of them U.S. citizens, and shoved them into waiting
       vans. Immigration agents blocked exits and arrested around 400
       people, who were then deported to Mexico, regardless of their
       citizenship or immigration status.
       The raid was just one incident in a long history of
       discrimination against Latino people in the United States. Since
       the 1840s, anti-Latino prejudice has led to illegal
       deportations, school segregation and even
       lynching—often-forgotten events that echo the civil rights
       violations of African Americans in the Jim Crow-era South.
       ...
       Latinos were barred entry into Anglo establishments and
       segregated into urban barrios in poor areas. Though Latinos were
       critical to the U.S. economy and often were American citizens,
       everything from their language to the color of their skin to
       their countries of origin could be used as a pretext for
       discrimination. Anglo-Americans treated them as a foreign
       underclass and perpetuated stereotypes that those who spoke
       Spanish were lazy, stupid and undeserving. In some cases, that
       prejudice turned fatal.
       Mob Violence Terrorized Latinos
       Mob violence against Spanish-speaking people was common in the
       late 19th and early 20th centuries, according to historians
       William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb. They estimate that the
       number of Latinos killed by mobs reach well into the thousands,
       though definitive documentation only exists for 547 cases.
       The violence began during California’s Gold Rush just after
       California became part of the United States. At the time, white
       miners begrudged former Mexicans a share of the wealth yielded
       by Californian mines—and sometimes enacted vigilante justice. In
       1851, for example, a mob of vigilantes accused Josefa Segovia of
       murdering a white man. After a fake trial, they marched her
       through the streets and lynched her. Over 2,000 men gathered to
       watch, shouting racial slurs. Others were attacked on suspicion
       of fraternizing with white women or insulting white people.
       Even children became the victims of this violence. In 1911, a
       mob of over 100 people hanged a 14-year-old boy, Antonio Gómez,
       after he was arrested for murder. Rather than let him serve time
       in jail, townspeople lynched him and dragged his body through
       the streets of Thorndale, Texas.
       ...
       Forced Deportations in the 1920s and '30s
       In the late 1920s, anti-Mexican sentiment spiked as the Great
       Depression began. As the stock market tanked and unemployment
       grew, Anglo-Americans accused Mexicans and other foreigners of
       stealing American jobs. Mexican-Americans were discouraged and
       even forbidden from accepting charitable aid.
       As fears about jobs and the economy spread, the United States
       forcibly removed up to 2 million people of Mexican descent from
       the country—up to 60 percent of whom were American citizens.
       Euphemistically referred to as “repatriations,” the removals
       were anything but voluntary. Sometimes, private employers drove
       their employees to the border and kicked them out. In other
       cases, local governments cut off relief, raided gathering places
       or offered free train fare to Mexico. Colorado even ordered all
       of its “Mexicans”—in reality, anyone who spoke Spanish or seemed
       to be of Latin descent—to leave the state in 1936 and blockaded
       its southern border to keep people from leaving. Though no
       formal decree was ever issued by immigration authorities, INS
       officials deported about 82,000 people during the period.
       ...
       Latino Children Suffered in Segregated Schools
       Another little-remembered facet of anti-Latino discrimination in
       the United States is school segregation. Unlike the South, which
       had explicit laws barring African American children from white
       schools, segregation was not enshrined in the laws of the
       southwestern United States. Nevertheless, Latino people were
       excluded from restaurants, movie theaters and schools.
       Latino students were expected to attend separate “Mexican
       schools” throughout the southwest beginning in the 1870s. At
       first, the schools were set up to serve the children of
       Spanish-speaking laborers at rural ranches. Soon, they spread
       into cities, too.By the 1940s, as many as 80 percent of Latino
       children in places like Orange County, California attended
       separate schools. Among them was Sylvia Mendez, a young girl who
       was turned away from an all-white school in the county. Instead
       of going to the pristine, well-appointed 17th Street Elementary,
       she was told to attend Hoover Elementary—a dilapidated, two-room
       shack.
       The bare-bones facilities offered to students like Mendez lacked
       basic supplies and sufficient teachers. Many only provided
       vocational classes or did not offer a full 12 years of
       instruction. Children were arbitrarily forced to attend based on
       factors like their complexion and last name.
       ...
       school officials claimed that Latino students were dirty and
       infected with diseases that put white students at risk. Besides,
       they argued, Mexican-American students didn’t speak English and
       were thus not entitled to attend English-speaking schools. (When
       asked, officials conceded that they never gave students
       proficiency tests.) “Mexicans are inferior in personal hygiene,
       ability and in their economic outlook,” said one
       official.[/quote]
       NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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       Re: Trumpism is an echo
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 16, 2023, 9:18 pm
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       It's OK for tar and feathers to be "white":
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/hidden-story-two-black-college-133738891.html
       [quote]One cold April night in 1919, at around 2 a.m., a mob of
       60 rowdy white students at the University of Maine surrounded
       the dorm room of Samuel and Roger Courtney in Hannibal Hamlin
       Hall. The mob planned to attack the two Black brothers from
       Boston in retaliation for what a newspaper article described at
       the time as their “domineering manner and ill temper.” The
       brothers were just two among what yearbooks show could not have
       been more than a dozen Black University of Maine students at the
       time.
       While no first-person accounts or university records of the
       incident are known to remain, newspaper clippings and
       photographs from a former student’s scrapbook help fill in the
       details.
       Although outnumbered, the Courtney brothers escaped. They
       knocked three freshmen attackers out cold in the process. Soon a
       mob of hundreds of students and community members formed to
       finish what the freshmen had started. The mob captured the
       brothers and led them about four miles back to campus with horse
       halters around their necks.
       Before a growing crowd at the livestock-viewing pavilion,
       members of the mob held down Samuel and Roger as their heads
       were shaved and their bodies stripped naked in the near-freezing
       weather. They were forced to slop each other with hot molasses.
       The mob then covered them with feathers from their dorm room
       pillows. The victims and bystanders cried out for the mob to
       stop but to no avail. Local police, alerted hours earlier,
       arrived only after the incident ended. No arrests were made.
       Incidents of tarring and feathering as a form of public torture
       can be found throughout American history, from colonial times
       onward. In nearby Ellsworth, Maine, a Know Nothing mob, seen by
       some as a forerunner to the KKK, tarred and feathered Jesuit
       priest Father John Bapst in 1851. Especially leading into World
       War I, this method of vigilantism continued to be used by the
       KKK and other groups against Black Americans, immigrants and
       labor organizers, especially in the South and West. As with the
       Courtney brothers incident, substitutions like molasses or
       milkweed were made based on what was readily available. Although
       rarely fatal, victims of tarring and feathering attacks were not
       only humiliated by being held down, shaved, stripped naked and
       covered in a boiled sticky substance and feathers, but their
       skin often became burned and blistered or peeled off when
       solvents were used to remove the remnants.
       ...
       No condemnation
       The tarring and feathering is also missing from official
       University of Maine histories. A brief statement from the
       university’s then-president, Robert J. Aley, claimed the event
       was nothing more than childish hazing that was “likely to happen
       any time, at any college, the gravity depending much upon the
       susceptibilities of the victim and the notoriety given it.”
       Rather than condemn the mob’s violence, his statement
       highlighted the fact that one of the brothers had previously
       violated unspecified campus rules, as if that justified the
       treatment the men received.
       ...
       most Americans have still never heard about the Black
       sharecroppers killed in the Elaine Massacre in Arkansas that
       year for organizing their labor or the fatal stoning of Black
       Chicago teenager Eugene Williams for floating into “white
       waters” in Lake Michigan. They weren’t taught about the Black
       World War I soldiers attacked in Charleston, South Carolina, and
       Bisbee, Arizona, during the Red Summer.
       There is still work to do, but the recent anniversaries of
       events like the Tulsa Massacre or the Red Summer, which
       coincided with modern-day Black Lives Matter protests and the
       killings of Americans like Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, have
       sparked a renewed interest in the past.[/quote]
       NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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       Re: Trumpism is an echo
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 26, 2023, 5:08 pm
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       See also:
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       Re: Trumpism is an echo
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 27, 2023, 3:35 am
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