"The men who carried out the massacre had popular support among Southern whites—according to the historian Ted Tunnell, “nearly half the white males” in New Orleans alone belonged to terrorist groups such as the White League, which was willing to use violence to secure political gains or prevent black Americans from voting."

i urge everyone to read this

it's long but it's an important part of america's history and future

1883 U.S. v. Harris, Justice Bradley writes the majority opinion overturning the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which declared that “all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement.”

"When a man has emerged from slavery, and, by the aid of beneficent legislation, has shaken off the inseparable concomitants of that state, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of a mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws, and when his rights as a citizen or a man are to be protected in the ordinary modes by which other men's rights are protected … There were thousands of free colored people in this country before the abolition of slavery, enjoying all the essential rights of life, liberty and property the same as white citizens, yet no one at that time thought that it was any invasion of his personal status as a freeman because he was not admitted to all the privileges enjoyed by white citizens, or because he was subjected to discriminations in the enjoyment of accommodations in inns, public conveyances and places of amusement."

following this statement would be a century of jim crow laws, voter suppression and disenfranchisement, lynchings. segregation wouldn’t become illegal again until a century later, in the Civil Rights Act of 1964

New Orleans lynchings don't change the fact that we failed to protect the rights of black citizens

@ThatRightWingFish

certainly seems like your point was that because there were lynchings against non-blacks that black lynchings don't matter

since you said nobody cares and then brought up that there were lynchings against non-blacks too

lynchings are a microcosm of the general problem of the US government and state governments failing to protect the rights of black citizens

you're saying that the US government successfully protected black voting rights and upheld the guarantee of equal rights in the 15th Amendment?

of course there was racism and discrimination against European immigrants

we do talk about it too, Gangs of New York is all about how shitty conditions were in NY for Irish immigrants

but black discrimination was worse in terms of long lasting effects

and the largest mass lynching in US history was against Chinese people in LA

that one in Arkansas most wouldn't call a mass lynching, though some do

there were 15 Chinese lynched in LA

@Kwasy shouldn't be in the US*

@Noxar what shouldn't?

@Kwasy Did i tag the wrong person? I cant find anything that fits what I replied to from you (message history

weird

Italians in New Orleans? When did the negros infest it?

@Noxar maybe my statement about niggers?

@Kwasy ooh yes i think so

couldnt find it

did you delete it?

mfw I got silenced

some admin or mod deleted it

They're already citizens and have been since 1868. There's no way to deport them without disrupting the entire foundation of this country, i.e. citizenship. Only ~5000 free blacks even went to Liberia in the 19th century, modern blacks are not going to voluntarily leave the country.

In the end, Jefferson was wrong. We didn't need to deport freedmen to avoid a large-scale race war. Deportation wasn't actually necessary.

avoid a large scale race war? a race war is exactly what we need

@Kwasy Tell that to the white colonists that Dessalines massacred in Haiti.

@ThatRightWingFish no

@ThatRightWingFish I'm American, he's German

<@&350739960602689547> can you guys pls make a temp chat for the Swedish election

why not keep that in <#486385308951379968>

Shittiest game I have seen on an advert, you lose because the opponent has bad connection and you spend 70 minutes watching ads after each match

@Logical-Scholar name one thing that is not shit in snapchat stories

how do you expect him to do the impossible