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| #Post#: 14274-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Trumpism is an echo | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 22, 2022, 11:29 pm | |
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| 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? | |
| #Post#: 14294-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Trumpism is an echo | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 23, 2022, 9:51 pm | |
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| https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-dei-crt-schools-parents | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVkTQVU_fg | |
| #Post#: 16278-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Trumpism is an echo | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 3, 2022, 5:27 pm | |
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| https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/01/race-republicans-stephen-mil… | |
| [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] | |
| #Post#: 16526-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Demographic Blueshift | |
| By: rp Date: November 19, 2022, 12:10 am | |
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| https://youtu.be/STcNiGRM50c | |
| #Post#: 16553-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Trumpism is an echo | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 20, 2022, 2:00 pm | |
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| 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: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-we-lose/ | |
| Which is why we need: | |
| 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: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthroug… | |
| #Post#: 17028-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Trumpism is an echo | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 12, 2022, 6:18 pm | |
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| https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adolfoflores/racist-lawmakers-immigrantion… | |
| [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 Hern�ndez, 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] | |
| #Post#: 17410-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Trumpism is an echo | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 9, 2023, 4:12 pm | |
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| https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-repatriation-drives-mexico-deport… | |
| [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 | |
| Jos� Lopez testified before a California legislative committee | |
| about his family�s 1931 deportation to Michoac�n, 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: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/ice/ | |
| 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: | |
| 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: | |
| https://www.history.com/news/the-brutal-history-of-anti-latino-discrimination-i… | |
| [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 G�mez, | |
| 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. | |
| #Post#: 17498-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Trumpism is an echo | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 16, 2023, 9:18 pm | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| It's OK for tar and feathers to be "white": | |
| 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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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYqO80nEy5k | |
| See also: | |
| https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/trump-a-fascist/msg13… | |
| #Post#: 18623-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Trumpism is an echo | |
| By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 27, 2023, 3:35 am | |
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsO3rMl1Kls | |
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