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🧵The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was one of the worst national disasters in history, yet what many people did not know that it led to one of the most heinous acts of peonage since slavery.(cont)
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https://popularresistance.org/how-2000-people-of-darker-skin-were-used-as-barriers-at-gunpoint-during-the-great-mississippi-flood-of-1927/
🧵The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was one of the worst national disasters in history, yet what many people did not know that it led to one of the most heinous acts of peonage since slavery.(cont)
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#ResistanceUnited
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https://popularresistance.org/how-2000-people-of-darker-skin-were-used-as-barriers-at-gunpoint-during-the-great-mississippi-flood-of-1927/
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What do you call history we never learned but keep repeating.
Anyone have a spare time machine laying around?
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1900 Galveston Hurricane
Heartbreaking.
My God, I hope every single person who participated in the slaughtering of those people are burning in hell.
My white friends, we didn’t personally do this, but we HAVE to own it. Until we do, racism can’t be properly dealt with. It’s OUR problem. I’ll share a thread on this soon.
I heard he's recruiting all the white men in Knoxville. That should do it
I’m disgusted and descendants of those responsible should be apologizing to the black community for years to come .
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Bigotry is not innate.
Led Zeppelin did a version on their fourth album (1971.)
Other songs about the event are "Backwater Blues" by Bessie Smith (1927) and "Mississippi Heavy Water Blues" by Barbecue Bob (1928).
https://youtu.be/W5VmVvsjyKw?si=e1Fgmt1VKRFJ1w6r
@brandtrobinson.bsky.social are you familiar with this bit of history?
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Another moment of black history left out of the books. Thank you for enlightening us.
Don't hit the Snooze button.
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It makes White Supremacist look bad. Their feelings are easily hurt.
They consider such history as an instrument of reverse discrimination against whites.
The goal was to create a narrative and embed it in our psyche that White people are the "heroes" of the American story.
They are not.
They "saved" everyone.
They did not.
It was white supremacy at work.
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Civilize all these savages.
I’m building up reading materials to pass on to my daughter.
He also hosts this Crash Course, that I'm working through with my 6yo.
Thank you for your informative posts. 🤗
https://youtu.be/xPx5aRuWCtc?si=VC7i9nj6Hh3x_gLC
White, and it’s important we know what happened and this is shared.
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https://popularresistance.org/serving-the-oligarchs-a-look-back-at-biden-and-forward-at-trump/
‘24 LA Wildfires handled… Better?
BUT
DID get brief ‘Looter’ Panic (Usually assumed Blk/Brwn Folk, of course) that turned out mostly fabricated.
New Admin promises to make things WORSE.
You teach me so much I never learned in school.💔🙏🏼
And I am so very sorry✨
Maybe I'll just BE woke.
I'm known for it by tens of thousands of my followers for years.
Just consider it my "brand".
Woke is "being aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice).”
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Once the 99% figure this out. Then we can move onwards towards taking it back from evil men.
“When the people fear the government, that's tyranny; when the government fears the people, that's freedom.”
Thomas Jefferson
Ancestry & too many white people are still attempting to squash black people. 😭 especially the jerk who is supposedly president.
Another tragedy I never learned about in school. Dreadful
Wanna know why real American history was hidden from us?
The goal was to create a narrative and embed it in our psyche that White people are the "heroes" of the American story.
They are not.
They "saved" everyone.
They did not.
It was white supremacy at work.
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“During a flood in 1912, a Mississippi engineer who ran out of sandbags ordered several hundred black convicts to lie down on top of a levee while the water splashed over them. The local press suppressed the story, but the New York Times reported this horror as “brilliant.””
by John M. Barry. Please read.
In Mounds Landing, (cont)
https://samepassage.org/how-2000-blacks-were-used-as-barriers-at-gunpoint-during-the-great-mississippi-flood-of-1927/
https://blackartstory.org/2023/02/10/revisit-the-mississippi-river-great-flood-of-1927/
To add insult to injury, Black people were forced to repair white-owned(cont)
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/how-2000-blacks-were-used-as-barriers-at-gunpoint-during-the-great-mississippi-flood-of-1927
The federal government didn’t contribute a dime of direct aid to the thousands of flood victims, despite a record budget surplus. The Red Cross established racially segregated camps in the flood zones. (cont)
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Hardly any good came from Mississippi.
Staring with the Natives at the high point, that area, in an overall sense of civilizational development, has been steadily declining for 300 years
Which has eventually terminated in its current Nadir,