. Later in the evening, drunk, younger White men executed the remaining prisoners by marching them two by two out of a makeshift jail and shooting them from behind. By the end of the massacre, as many as 80 Black people were dead.
All these heinous crimes were committed with impunity. Local law enforcement had no intention of arresting and convicting the guilty. The Black people of Colfax, according to historian Nicholas Lemann, “had no choice but to live meekly under the rule of the men who had killed their husbands and sons and brothers.”I recount this story not only because it is tragic but also because it demonstrates some enduring characteristics of white supremacy.
After the Civil War, in this view, a cabal of carpetbaggers and vindictive Black officials was attempting to destroy the Southern way of life. Whites were resisting a culture war being conducted against them. This vision of victimization was set out in films such as “The Birth of a Nation,” screened by President Woodrow Wilson at the White House in 1915. Such cultural products lent credibility to White fears and knit these fears into a compelling conspiracy theory — one reinforced by newspapers, educational institutions, politicians and movie night at the White House. It was hard to separate such theories from efforts across the South to intimidate Black people through lynching and mass violence.
This much needs to be communicated — by all politicians and commentators — with clarity: No belief that likens our fellow citizens to invaders and encourages racist dehumanization is an American belief.
Left should of thought of that before they fanned the flame of resistance.
But one of them IS a party official.
there aren't any.
You should be honest with both sides not only the far left .
“No belief that likens our fellow citizens to invaders and encourages racist dehumanization is an American belief.” Those beliefs are American in the sense that they’ve been here as long as we have, but they’re foreign to most Americans’ values and aspirations for the country.
'Tucker Carlson is CORRECT about Replacement Theory as he explains what is happening to America,' - Matt Gaetz BuffaloMassacre
Huh? It’s their brand now. It’s every candidate TFG endorses. It’s what TFG spouts at every rally. It’s what MTG and others spew daily. How the gop gonna execute the next coup without white supremacists assisting?
GOP leaders are just as bad, they have allowed this GRT stuff to fester for years in the expectation they will benefit off it - and they have, but when GOPers succeed, people die. And which GOP leaders are we talking about anyway? They all seem pretty pro-GRT to me.
One wishes, but the fact is believers of ‘replacement (conspiracy) theory’ are moving up the ladder in GOP leadership. Make no mistake, it is Trump’s party not McCain’s. House leadership will soon be in the hands of Jordan, Gaetz. Defeating republicans as whole is the only option
Why would they do that when the American right is now a white nationalist project?
They'd have to just throw the party away
Let’s start with Elise!
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