Yerp, this is why people talk about the civil war never actually resolving, it just festered as confederates were allowed back into office and started undermining the union.
You might be interested to read about the Wilmington massacre, which was a completely successful coup in North Carolina by white supremacists in which they burned black businesses and news papers and literally drove the sitting biracial government out of office.
The white supremacist who was “elected” after the coup held the office until his death.
Tuskegee syphillis study 1930s-70s, in which the CDC deliberately allowed black men with syphillis go untreated so they could study the progress of the disease, even after medicine allowed for treatment. This is the sort of thing that has created a deep cultural mistrust among black americans towards doctors.
There was the Battle of Blair Mountain in the 1920s in which some 10,000 striking coal workers got into a shooting battle against a private army of strikebreakers, who literally called in plains and were dropping bombs and gas on the workers.
All kinds of insane shit from our history that gets brushed under the rug in certain states.
What do you mean, “in certain states?” I highly doubt there’s any state that teaches the history of how shitty we’ve been to natives and minorities whole and unvarnished.
Yerp, this is why people talk about the civil war never actually resolving, it just festered as confederates were allowed back into office and started undermining the union.
You might be interested to read about the Wilmington massacre, which was a completely successful coup in North Carolina by white supremacists in which they burned black businesses and news papers and literally drove the sitting biracial government out of office.
The white supremacist who was “elected” after the coup held the office until his death.
Tuskegee syphillis study 1930s-70s, in which the CDC deliberately allowed black men with syphillis go untreated so they could study the progress of the disease, even after medicine allowed for treatment. This is the sort of thing that has created a deep cultural mistrust among black americans towards doctors.
There was the Battle of Blair Mountain in the 1920s in which some 10,000 striking coal workers got into a shooting battle against a private army of strikebreakers, who literally called in plains and were dropping bombs and gas on the workers.
All kinds of insane shit from our history that gets brushed under the rug in certain states.
Because it’s the Land of the Free.1
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What do you mean, “in certain states?” I highly doubt there’s any state that teaches the history of how shitty we’ve been to natives and minorities whole and unvarnished.