Junopsis
Ephemeral Spectre
- Joined
- Oct 31, 2005
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Some places are at least making a point of highlighting that terrible things happened there. It's not much, but it's something.
What happened in central FL is that the Klan said "no, we're not letting any black people vote. You're on the rolls? No, you aren't", and poll-watched with guns. A black guy showed up armed to attempt to exercise said rights, and so they killed him and promptly massacred/burned down the houses of all the black people in the town.
The period newspaper article, however, said "we call that committing suicide in these parts". The town made a day recently to remember the massacre victims.
It bothers me how proud some Americans are about denying that there's anything wrong with this or that it has effects or is worth knowing. We're not at all based on actually representing the constituency.
What happened in central FL is that the Klan said "no, we're not letting any black people vote. You're on the rolls? No, you aren't", and poll-watched with guns. A black guy showed up armed to attempt to exercise said rights, and so they killed him and promptly massacred/burned down the houses of all the black people in the town.
The period newspaper article, however, said "we call that committing suicide in these parts". The town made a day recently to remember the massacre victims.
It bothers me how proud some Americans are about denying that there's anything wrong with this or that it has effects or is worth knowing. We're not at all based on actually representing the constituency.