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I don't waste all my time here, it just seems that way.
à chacun ses goûts, I don't tell you what to do. But if my posting bothers you so much you def should consider another pastime.
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I don't waste all my time here, it just seems that way.
à chacun ses goûts, I don't tell you what to do. But if my posting bothers you so much you def should consider another pastime.
That's what's being censored.
What is your definition of critical race theory Darrin?
then what is it?
Darrin is genuinely afraid of this question.
Sadbert tag team.
Sadbert tag team.
Come on, Darrin. This question can't physically hurt your butt.
say your say.Sadbert tag team.
what are you afraid of?
Black homecoming king says he was called racial slur during game.
He, not opponents, was suspended
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...-was-suspended
Lawsuit: Newborn baby dies after BLACK mother forced to give birth in Florida jail
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...n-Florida-jail
Give mother $27 million + $1 so she makes more than Floyd.
tee, hee.
Ya got a tape...one that ain't been ed with like that Zimmerman tape was ed with by mother er Bid...I mean mother er Obama & CNN...you got such tape, bouts?
is this CRT?
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/01/ambush/When the Klan gathered in Lumbee territory in 1958, it wasn't the first time. Indian farmer Sanford Locklear recalled seeing hooded Klansmen in a field near his home back in the 1930s, when he was 16 years old. Later, when retelling the story, Locklear recalled his father's halting voice struggling to explain what was going on. "He said, 'When they gather like that… they talk about…' He said, 'Sometimes they go to people's house and beat them.'" This was a difficult truth to convey to a young son—that the Klan beat people like him. Sanford asked why didn't somebody stop them, and his father said, "It's their land. They're having meetings on it. They can do what they want to do" (2).
In many ways, the racial situation in Robeson County had not changed much by the early 1950s. But in 1954, nearly 5,000 white workers lost jobs in textile mills across piedmont North Carolina, causing an economic crash for white families and a coinciding rise in attendance at Klan rallies. Three years later, the Klan's new Grand Dragon, James "Catfish" Cole, began a publicity campaign in the Union County town of Monroe, where NAACP activists led by Robert F. Williams had been pushing to end the system of separate and unequal in the town's public facilities. In retaliation for the NAACP's civil rights work, Cole led a full-scale armed assault on the home of a Black doctor in Monroe.
In a brazen show of support, county sheriff's deputies escorted the Klan caravan to the doctor's home. Williams and about 60 armed Black men had been guarding Perry's home for weeks, so they were prepared—when the Klansmen opened fire, Williams and 60 men fired right back, driving Catfish Cole and his minions away in a haze of humiliation.(3)
it gets better
The Klan continued its intimidation, moving to different targets. In the first weeks of 1958, a Lumbee family staggered out their front door in the middle of the night to find a fiery cross in their yard. The family had recently moved into a white neighborhood in Lumberton, the county seat, and this attracted the ire of Cole's Klansmen, who were dedicated to enforcing segregationist ideals of white 'purity'. The same warning—a flaming cross—was given to a white woman from a nearby town for dating an Indian man. In the press, Cole announced his desire to "put Indians in their place, to end race-mixing." He said, "I am for segregation."(4)
But, for centuries, Lumbees had been crossing the racial lines constructed by whites. They believed they were as good as white people, and that they could live in any neighborhood they could afford or date anyone they wanted. And, more deeply, their very existence as Indians belied the "truth" of white supremacy and the binary structure of race-based segregation. Segregation depended on reducing everyone into one of two categories—white or Black. Anyone else was, by definition, an affront to the system. Even though Lumbees were not openly advocating to end segregation in their schools, Cole targeted them anyway, to demonstrate the Klan's commitment to protecting white supremacy.
Following the cross burnings, Catfish Cole announced a Klan rally for Saturday, January 18, 1958, at Hayes Pond near the town of Maxton. As with other gatherings, Cole encouraged his followers to come with guns. As word of the rally spread to Klan members, it also spread through Lumbee communities. Sanford Locklear heard about it at a barbershop in Pembroke. He recalled some of the men wanted to confront the Klan, saying, "Let's meet them in Maxton; let's not give them the chance to come to Pembroke."(5)
With the proposed gathering, the Klan wasn't merely insulting Indian people; its presence would infringe on Indian land. Even though Maxton was only 10 miles away, few Indians lived in town and they didn't consider it an Indian place. Rather than allow Klansmen to meet and then caravan to Indian homes near Pembroke, the way they had done in the assault on Williams in Monroe, these Indian men decided to ambush the Klan outside Lumbee territory. There was no way they were going to let Catfish Cole on their land.
Robeson County sheriff Malcolm McLeod drove to Cole's home in South Carolina and asked him to cancel the rally. The year before, in Monroe, police cars had escorted Klan demonstrations, but McLeod promised Cole no such protection. The day before the planned rally, Maxton's police chief told a reporter that he didn't want "outsiders" like Cole to "stir up trouble" in otherwise "good race relations." The Robeson County sheriff warned that Indians planned to kill Cole if he spoke at the rally.(6)
Cole did not heed the sheriff's warnings. That night, about 50 Klan members drove to Hayes Pond and circled their cars; Cole set up a small generator, a PA system, and a lamp. Most of Robeson County's Klan members stayed home; the 50 Klan members, women, and children at the rally were part of Cole's following from South Carolina. Soon they were surrounded by 500 Indian men, many of whom were U.S. military veterans, and about 50 Indian women. Many were armed with rifles, shotguns, pistols, and knives.
Sanford Locklear and his brother-in-law Neil Lowry walked up to Cole. As Locklear remembered(7):At that moment, the Indian crowd erupted, firing guns into the air and roaring.
I asked him what was he doing there. He said, "We come to talk to these people." I said, "Well, you're ain't gon' talk to these people tonight." He said, "Yes, I am." I said, "No, you ain't." And so words was exchanged, you know. And about that, about that time, I pushed on him and pushed him back, and I throwed the gun on him. I pushed him, you know, and I throwed the gun on him. And I told him not to move. "And don't you move; if you do, well, I'll kill you," that's what I said. And he had his light up there. My brother-in-law shot, he shot his light out, and when he shot the light out, I kicked his tape player, recorder.
Cole took off running into the swamps. His panicked followers dropped their guns, jumped in their cars, and drove in all directions—some straight into the ditches surrounding the field. Cole abandoned his own wife, Carolyn, at the scene. She either escaped on foot with her three children or, as some Lumbees tell the story, drove her car into a ditch and had to have Lumbee men pull her out.(8) Miraculously, no one was seriously injured, even though Sanford Locklear's threat to kill Cole was real. "I am still puzzled that no one got killed," said one of the women who confronted the Klan.(9)
Catfish Cole didn't come out of his hiding place for two days.
The Lumbee response was both euphoric and measured. The night of the rally, my Uncle Simeon Oxendine, a 's Angels veteran and son of Pembroke's mayor Sonny Oxendine, seized the KKK's flag with fellow veteran Charlie Warriax. With the crowd, they set up a bonfire in Pembroke, where they burned Catfish Cole in effigy. The next day, the two men traveled to Charlotte with the flag, and a newspaper took a picture of them, wrapped in it, winking at the camera. The nation's most threatening organization seemed thoroughly routed.
Lacy Maynor, the second Lumbee judge to be elected since Reconstruction, presided in civil court over a hearing for the only Klan member arrested immediately after the incident, a man named James Garland Martin. Martin worked in a tobacco plant in Reidsville, North Carolina, over two and a half hours north of Pembroke. He was Cole's sergeant-at-arms in the Klan; sheriff's deputies had found him in a ditch and charged him with public drunkenness and carrying a concealed weapon. At his hearing, amid a crowd of journalists and photographers, Judge Maynor gave him the lightest possible sentence, and a lecture(10):Later, both Catfish Cole and James Martin faced additional civil and criminal charges in the Robeson County Superior Court, including inciting a riot. In a Lumberton courtroom filled with 350 Indian onlookers, the prosecutor told the jury, "Gentlemen, you had better stop this. If you don't, there will be more bloodshed." Gesturing toward the Indian audience in the courtroom, he continued, "If you think you can take [any] Kluxer… and drive that crowd around, you've got another think a-coming"(11).
You came with a gun. Obviously you did not bring goodwill. Our people can't understand why you would want to come among a happy people and… create discord. [We] want to create a community that would be an asset to our nation…. If your organization had something worthwhile to offer, we would be happy to have you. But the history of your organization proves that it has nothing to offer.
The next day, the all-male, all-white jury took 43 minutes to return guilty verdicts for both Cole and Martin. The judge gave Cole the strongest possible sentence, 18 to 24 months on the chain gang, and handed Martin a lighter sentence, which also included prison time. When asked why he voted to convict, one jury member told a reporter, "People from out of this county came here with shotguns—and they didn't come bird-hunting"(12). Defiant, Cole promised more rallies, but Martin said he was leaving the Klan.(13) Cole never did organize any more rallies in Robeson County, and if the Ku Klux Klan has held any there since 1958, they have not been publicized.
"racism is the core of our religious belief and morality"
Racism didn't end when Congress passed the Voting Rights two years after black folks were attacked in Selma for trying to register to vote, it just gave them a legal remedy against racist assholes trying deprive them of their rights.
if Republicans don't like African-Americans voting overwhelmingly for Democrats, maybe it should fight for their votes instead of trying to limit voting.
Connect the dots in your fallacy. What if...their isn't a conspiracy because 13% is chump change.
how many US states have had to redraw electoral districting maps because of racial gerrymanders?
IIRC, Texas hasn't issued a map that could pass judicial review anytime this century.
so much for the absence of a conspiracy.
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/78567...ans-wanted-sea
"equality for black kids harms my white kid"
True. You have to take from white and give to black.
You started that gerrymandering strategy, Winester. You just didn't want us employing it. You using it (good). Us using it (bad).
What does that mean exactly? Exactly...you can dish it, but you cannot take it.
Blacks have been voting Democrat in a 95% block for more than a half century. Let white try that 95% black surge and there'd be an insurrection.
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