Groups march to remember 1917 East St. Louis riot, call for reparations

[The Duke]

What restitution was paid to the slaves when slavery ended?

What restitution was paid to us when Jim Crow ended?

Do whites still benefit today from slavery and Jim Crow?

40 acres?

Well, that's how my family did it, anyway. Their offspring done bought up all the land they could around, they got

rentals and everything. From that 40 they turned it into 240.

PS: When slavery "ended" things didn't didn't change as much as some might think it did.

People still needed jobs and there was still tons of work to be done on everyone's land everywhere.

Mostly everybody had their job to do and kept doing it. My family came to FL in the 1840s..land grants,

200 acres a pop for free. They were going to give the other property to the help, have somebody that could own property

be in charge for on the books stuff, and they could have it, but they wanted to come with my family.

So that's what they did. It worked out really good because all the job assignments pretty much stayed the same.

Everybody got to still do what they were best at, a merit(talent?) based system.

 

[WEATHER53]

I think everyone who suffered in 1917 should get reparations.

Just another pat on the head for dear dear boy here is your gimmie so behave now. And they never do and are on to the next gimmie demand

 

[WEATHER53]

According to you no one should ever receive reparations, why did former slave owners recieve them? Why did native Americans receive them? Why did Japanese Americans receive them? Why has America given Israel over 246 billion dollars since WWII?

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Those were mostly treaties or contracts being fulfilled
Fake attempt defeated

 

[leftwinger]

It is hard to post the whole story what really happened with Marxist Obiden folks won't read or can't read very well?

Bottom Line: ESTL was booming. Blacks were working but not always happy. Whites weren't happy Blacks were taking all the jobs.....so there was tension.

Rumors begin to spread about one Black beaten crossing over the bridge to STL. Then rumors grew to a WHITE model T driving thru ESTL shooting at houses.

A mob of Blacks armed up....Police sent to investigate....in chauffer driven car. They confronted the mob. Words were exchanged. Claim was it "backfired" after the Cops began to drive off. Blacks thought they were shooting and opened up on the car. Both Police shot, one dead and the other dying soon.


That is how it began. When the Whites found out what happened they were not happy. National guard etc. called in to stop it.

read it and weep SuperBadBoy

 

[Superbadbrutha]

People no longer care what racist commies and blacks think. Try having some real credibility or something, under another sock. We just laugh at this one and your other two or three.

No, you mean racist white trash like you has never cared what black folks think.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Those were mostly treaties or contracts being fulfilled
Fake attempt defeated

BS, those were reparations that were paid out to Americans.

 

[The Duke]

BS, those were reparations that were paid out to Americans.

De black man ain't gwine ta get na'am.

 

[Weatherman2020]

No, you mean racist white trash like you has never cared what black folks think.

I care.

 

[jotathought]

Reparations .. what a great idea to shell out billions of dollars and inject into the economy as inflation rates still waver. Brilliant!

 

[WEATHER53]

BS, those were reparations that were paid out to Americans.

They were contracts and treaties and established agreements versus you constant cry out for money based on what the long dead did to and with each other.

 

[WEATHER53]

No, you mean racist white trash like you has never cared what black folks think.

No it means you have been provided fact reality that you don’t feel good about but can’t refute so you name call.
Stuporsadmutha be you.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

De black man ain't gwine ta get na'am.

Get that.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I care.
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No, you don't care, you tolerate those coons because they are useful tools.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

They were contracts and treaties and established agreements versus you constant cry out for money based on what the long dead did to and with each other.

Post the treaties.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

No it means you have been provided fact reality that you don’t feel good about but can’t refute so you name call.
Stuporsadmutha be you.

No, Withered53. Still waiting on some facts from you.

 

[Weatherman2020]

No, you don't care, you tolerate those coons because they are useful tools.

 

[horselightning]

I think everyone who suffered in 1917 should get reparations.

lol burying money in the grave yard . oy lol

 

[horselightning]

It is hard to post the whole story what really happened with Marxist Obiden folks won't read or can't read very well?

Bottom Line: ESTL was booming. Blacks were working but not always happy. Whites weren't happy Blacks were taking all the jobs.....so there was tension.

Rumors begin to spread about one Black beaten crossing over the bridge to STL. Then rumors grew to a WHITE model T driving thru ESTL shooting at houses.

A mob of Blacks armed up....Police sent to investigate....in chauffer driven car. They confronted the mob. Words were exchanged. Claim was it "backfired" after the Cops began to drive off. Blacks thought they were shooting and opened up on the car. Both Police shot, one dead and the other dying soon.


That is how it began. When the Whites found out what happened they were not happy. National guard etc. called in to stop it.

read it and weep SuperBadBoy

both sides were wrong,. and?

 

[leftwinger]

“Money tree . . . all you have to do is go up there and shake it.” That’s the visual impoverished Southern blacks used to describe East St. Louis in 1916, according to Lyman Bluitt, a local black doctor.

The East St. Louis money tree had a robust canopy of entry-level jobs in railroads, stockyards, steel mills, and factories. Ads in Southern newspapers promised work to any black person willing to move north. As a result, thousands of African Americans bought one-way tickets.

The Southern blacks who resettled in East St. Louis and other northern industrial cities in the 1910s were the start of a movement later named the Great Migration. Over the next 50 years, millions of mostly rural Southern blacks headed out to start new lives in northern urban centers, away from the dangers of the South and its “separate but equal” Jim Crow laws.

African Americans who arrived in East St. Louis in 1916 saw their shaking of the city’s money tree as seizing opportunities otherwise denied them, but many of the people already in East St. Louis saw invasion, theft, and foreigners upsetting the norm. These white residents glared hatefully at the thousands of new black faces arriving each day.

 

[leftwinger]

both sides were wrong,. and?

It looks that way I suppose? But an armed Black mob (est. 150) killed two cops on July 2nd shooting them in the car. Whites responed the next morning when they found out.