1/21 #WhiteSupremacy is not passive; it is proactive, violent, and pathologically relentless.
I don't know who created the attached image but, in researching them, I discovered others that were not represented.
As we look more closely at a few specific events, we will keenly recognize some common threads, but I'd like to start with one that is not depicted in the image, but is really the best place to start - the #ConfederateStatesofAmerica and the American #CivilWar!
@duaneaubin The Philly one is just the latest one.
"By July 30, the major rioting had subsided and only a few incidents were reported. Over the four days of rioting, 60 African Americans were arrested, compared to only three whites, although many witnesses, black and white, claimed that whites were the main instigators."
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1918-race-riot-philadelphia-pennsylvania-1918/
Reminds me of the excellent movie Suburbicon which is also set in Pennsylvania.
And, Pennsylvania - a "northern" state! Can't wait to get into the #PartySwitch next week and put this in context!
@jaysonmassey
Yep!
While I wanted to limit the scope of this thread to ensure an undistracted absolute focus on the political aspects of the massacres that so many people are missing today, a follow-up thread is worthwhile to explore other aspects that also connect to today, and this quote you mentioned here is a good example of one particular aspect, that of how police so often acted in defense/support of - which is to say, as agents of - #WhiteSupremacists and #WhiteSupremacy.