African Americans near some of the homes burned during the race riot in Springfield, Ill., in August 1908.Illinois' two senators have called on President-elect Joe Biden to make the site of a 1908 race riot in Springfield a national monument.
In 1908, from Aug. 14 to 16, a mob of about 5,000 white people stormed Black neighborhoods to find and lynch two Black men, one charged with murdering a white man and the other with raping a white womanWhen the mob learned the men had been secretly transferred to a jail in another city, it began canvassing Black neighborhoods to destroy businesses and homes. Authorities had to call on the state’s National Guard to quell the riot.
NBCBLK To be built with federal money since IL is broke.
maggieNYT NBCBLK While a national monument is good, let's start by adding this type of historical content to educational materials taught in a school. It pisses me off that at 62 and just learning about all these injustices.
maggieNYT NBCBLK So maybe invite the 1 in 8 hungry children in the United States of America to the unveiling so they can get a meal and bring the children still searching for parents at the border, because I’m sure that will comfort them. Purpose and action , not politics and statues please.
NBCBLK Actually black people commite 50% of violent crime in the us at only 15% of the population so actually there the problem in America everyone should have a gun and a bullet profvest in every major city and black people should have to goth rough metal detectors with that logic
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NBCBLK I helped excavate this site. It was an eye opening experience.
NBCBLK MIRACLE OF NEW UTERUS CREATED WATCH
maggieNYT NBCBLK 49 deaths at hands of Summer PeacefulProtesters - OK ... Which is it, defund the systematically racist police the BlueWave hate or suddenly you're awake to the death of a Capitol Police officer by John Sullivan coordinated 'riot'?
NBCBLK That might be entirely appropriate, but I don't think that should be what Biden needs to focus on right now. He has a democracy to save.
maggieNYT NBCBLK Where oh where were they during the last 9 months of terrorists riots ?! Fires, destruction, injuries, murder, thefts. !!! FOR NINE MONTHS!!!
NBCBLK Good move
NBCBLK Democrats are obsessed with race. That's racist if you think about it.
NBCBLK Amazing
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