Biff_Poindexter
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Amber Ruffin airs some of the sunken Black history white conservatives are trying to hide
Amber Ruffin airs some of the sunken Black history white conservatives are trying to hide
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"Amber Ruffin [host of the Amber Ruffin Show] kicked off a segment by introducing viewers to Georgia’s Lake Lanier. Created by flooding a primarily Black town called Oscarville in 1912, the lake’s happy boaters and floaters now paddle directly on top of the still in place remains of a town which was hounded out of literal existence by white mobs whipped into a racist frenzy after the deeply sketchy conviction of two Black teenagers for crimes against a white woman.
Ruffin went on to pull up a list of such deliberately sunken Black towns all across America, [including] Alabama’s Lake Martin (built on the now-sodden bones of the majority-Black town of Kowaliga, along with its Black college and the first Black-owned railroad) -- As Ruffin ran down some more of that inconvenient American history current-day white Americans are attempting to bury under a lake of screeching ignorance and patently un-American censorship. And—shocker—Black people and other people of color have been woefully under-compensated when it was time for Uncle Sam to seize and sink their homes in the service of progress."
Once again, these critical race theorists, Hollywood BLM marxists and Antifa fascists rear their ugly heads to try to ruin more American history -- you know you are evil when you have to attack parks and lakes...like really? However, one silver lining about Lake Lanier....it is fitting that the lake was built over that darkie town and was named after a Confederate solider/poet...that in itself is a bit of poetic justice...because you could say the South rose again and flooded out those darkies -- now that is some history worth teaching....inspiration for the Neo-Confederates among us...
But who cares about these other darkie towns of the past; these places were much more improved by putting parks and lakes there instead....who cares what darkie communities existed where Central Park now stands..Who cares that Seneca village was a community started by free black folks that was comprised of 80% black families and 20% Irish and German families -- who cares?? What do they want us to do, learn about this history? Teach kids about this crap? That isn't American history that needs to be taught anyway...
