America's history of racism and cruelty to ethnic people, red, yellow, brown, but ESPECIALLY BLACK skinned people is fact-based.
"America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 People Were Murdered In Arkansas"
In 1919, in the wake of World War I, black sharecroppers unionized in Arkansas, unleashing a wave of white vigilantism and mass murder that left 237 people dead.
David Krugler 02.16.15
Often the solution to blacks making use of their freedom in America was murder and hate, with no resistance from the law, and often support of the law. We have often shown a unique sickness in America when we think black people are too "uppity." We kill them.
"The visits began in the fall of 1918, just as World War I ended. At his office in Little Rock, Arkansas, attorney Ulysses S. Bratton listened as African American sharecroppers from the Delta told stories of theft, exploitation, and endless debt. A man named Carter had tended 90 acres of cotton, only to have his landlord seize the entire crop and his possessions. From the town of Ratio, in Phillips County, Arkansas, a black farmer reported that a plantation manager refused to give sharecroppers an itemized account for their crop. Another sharecropper told of a landlord trying “to starve the people into selling the cotton at his own price. They ain’t allowing us down there room to move our feet except to go to the field.”
No one could know it at the time, but within a year these inauspicious meetings would lead to one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. Initiated by whites, the violence—by any measure, a massacre—claimed the lives of 237 African Americans, according to a just released report from the Equal Justice Initiative."
It's not always good to get what you want, i.e., freedom for blacks, or to ask for justice if you are black.
"There was nothing “peaceable” about the methods used to demolish the sharecroppers’ union. Late on the night of September 30, 1919, the planters dispatched three men to break up a union meeting in a rough hewn black church at Hoop Spur, a crossroads three miles north of Elaine. Prepared for trouble, the sharecroppers had assigned six men to patrol outside the church. A verbal confrontation led to gunfire that fatally wounded one of the attackers. The union men dispersed, but not for long. Bracing for reprisals from their landlords, they rousted fellow sharecroppers from bed and formed self-defense forces.
The planters also mobilized. Sheriff Frank Kitchens deputized a massive white posse, even setting up a headquarters at the courthouse in the county seat of Helena to organize his recruits. Hundreds of white veterans, recently returned from military service in France, flocked to the courthouse. Dividing into small groups, the armed white men set out into the countryside to search for the sharecroppers. The posse believed that a black conspiracy to murder white planters had just been begun and that they must do whatever it took to put down the alleged uprising. The result was the killing of 237 African Americans."
Sad! Sick! Confused! White ex-soldiers readily turned on the blacks who helped win WWI, and innocent blacks who merely wanted justice and fair treatment, just as any white person would want.
If you have the courage to read about slavery in America, and how it was a process and a system to dehumanize humans, then read about the passage of years since where the racism never seems to wane or diminish . . . you would puke.
Unless you are pinkish, or shades of "clean: and nice white, you are pretty ugly stuff to "White" America.
