It's always bitterly amusing to me how much white people love to go on about the importance of 'living your truth' while adamantly refusing to even acknowledge ours exists.
My maternal grandfather was run out of Arkansas TO Oklahoma City early in the 20th century according to the family oral history; my mother was the baby of the family and the only one born in Oklahoma. We learned about the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma History class, but not a peep about the Tulsa massacre (not surprising!)
Hitler also saw Manifest Destiny and the reservation system as a model for the Holocaust. The idea that one race of people must be eradicated for the sake of "progress" fed easily into Nazi ideology. The asshole loved western movies, after all.
I grew up in Wilmington and knew about that coup ("race riot" was what I heard it called. The more accurate coup terminology seems to have become more common recently). I think we learned about it from Philip Gerard's Cape Fear Rising, though, and not from any sort of oral history. The Black community in Wilmington certainly remembered.
If you haven't read it, Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson is incredible. He's from Oxford NC and grew up in Wilmington also. It's a less-told racial history of those places.
I took three runs at Zinn's book before I got through it. The book is way-y-y too intense for casual students of history. I studied US History 1&2 with United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) under the aegis of UW-Madison. The text was a 4-inch thick paperback, used for both classes, and I read the ENTIRE thing. My HS history class ended at the onset of the US Civil War, but we sure studied the hell out of our HS history teacher's Master's Thesis, which was some arcana about the American Revolution.
I am a Viet-Vet, and life-long Democrat. I had a serious lapse in 1968, when I voted for Nixon to act on his promise to end the war "with honor." I sure learned my lesson!
So then...if the Candycorn Skidmark had sublimated his racism, and allowed another international leader to head the charge, it might have fooled everybody?
It's always bitterly amusing to me how much white people love to go on about the importance of 'living your truth' while adamantly refusing to even acknowledge ours exists.
My maternal grandfather was run out of Arkansas TO Oklahoma City early in the 20th century according to the family oral history; my mother was the baby of the family and the only one born in Oklahoma. We learned about the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma History class, but not a peep about the Tulsa massacre (not surprising!)
Hitler also saw Manifest Destiny and the reservation system as a model for the Holocaust. The idea that one race of people must be eradicated for the sake of "progress" fed easily into Nazi ideology. The asshole loved western movies, after all.
"It's too soon. Don't politicize it!"
That Portland resident really needs to read the fuck up on Oregon's history. The whole state was founded on the principle of keeping Black people out.
They should start with Dave Neiwert's work.
A slightly less intense but still superb version is Lies My Teacher Told Me.
I grew up in Wilmington and knew about that coup ("race riot" was what I heard it called. The more accurate coup terminology seems to have become more common recently). I think we learned about it from Philip Gerard's Cape Fear Rising, though, and not from any sort of oral history. The Black community in Wilmington certainly remembered.
If you haven't read it, Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson is incredible. He's from Oxford NC and grew up in Wilmington also. It's a less-told racial history of those places.
I took three runs at Zinn's book before I got through it. The book is way-y-y too intense for casual students of history. I studied US History 1&2 with United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) under the aegis of UW-Madison. The text was a 4-inch thick paperback, used for both classes, and I read the ENTIRE thing. My HS history class ended at the onset of the US Civil War, but we sure studied the hell out of our HS history teacher's Master's Thesis, which was some arcana about the American Revolution.
I am a Viet-Vet, and life-long Democrat. I had a serious lapse in 1968, when I voted for Nixon to act on his promise to end the war "with honor." I sure learned my lesson!
So then...if the Candycorn Skidmark had sublimated his racism, and allowed another international leader to head the charge, it might have fooled everybody?
Even Wisconsin had at least one racial lynching, in Milwaukee, on September 6, 1861.
http://www.milwaukeeindepen...
Not every "citizen" can pass a "paper-bag test."
https://www.urbandictionary...
If those pesky Jews had not killed Jesus, abetted by Caesar, there would be no point to Xtianity!
BTW, SER, superb reporting, as always. You're a Wonkette treasure.
Abso-fucking-lutely.
Or the people that had food because of George Carver inventing scientific agriculture