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Still begging for reparations, eh?We keep getting told about how republicans freed us from slavery. We don't get told about how republicans treated blacks after it was done.
The Great Flood of 1927; The Treatment of Blacks
Don't be scurred.
These things happened during a republican administration.
We keep getting told about how republicans freed us from slavery. We don't get told about how republicans treated blacks after it was done.
The Great Flood of 1927; The Treatment of Blacks
Don't be scurred.
Why don't you go back to ancient Egypt and the way Nubians were treated? Or pick a non-black group, say Chinese-that would be more interesting.
No. And since you want to tell us how republicans freed blacks from slavery, you can kiss my ass.
Another one scared to watch the film.
Ok, the lesson here is that neither party did the right thing at one time or another.
Still begging for reparations, eh?We keep getting told about how republicans freed us from slavery. We don't get told about how republicans treated blacks after it was done.
The Great Flood of 1927; The Treatment of Blacks
Don't be scurred.
These things happened during a republican administration.
We keep getting told about how republicans freed us from slavery. We don't get told about how republicans treated blacks after it was done.
The Great Flood of 1927; The Treatment of Blacks
Don't be scurred.
Why don't you go back to ancient Egypt and the way Nubians were treated? Or pick a non-black group, say Chinese-that would be more interesting.
No. And since you want to tell us how republicans freed blacks from slavery, you can kiss my ass.
Another one scared to watch the film.
The war was fought by whites to preserve the union and protect the white laborer class from being displaced by black slaves.
The blacks who fought in the war did so with the hope of being free and equal, which by law did not happen until over 100 years later.
All whites lie. So do all blacks. We are equal.Ok, the lesson here is that neither party did the right thing at one time or another.
The lesson is that republicans here are lying about the record of their party.
So, you mean Hoover actually formed a Committee to find out what went wrong. Did he screw up by not having federal officials there? Yes. Was it done maliciously? No-You can’t be serious? FEMA wasn’t even created until 1979.
It had to do with the local regions officials.
And Dem Gov Martineau called up the National Guard to assist.
Martineau was forced to deal with a major crisis when the Mississippi River broke free of its banks and covered 13 percent of the state during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
So where anyone is getting the president was responsible is rewriting history.
You are incorrect.
The Mississippi River “Great Flood of 1927” inundated large areas in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. However, it was in Mississippi where the embankments overflowed, drowning hundreds, perhaps a thousand people, and became one of the largest natural disasters in US history in terms of loss of life.
The flood also starkly revealed the wide “delta of Black peonage” or the “new” slavery that controlled the lives of slaves freed in 1865 and their descendants sixty-two years after passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. The flood showed that the shadow of the plantation still loomed large, as little had changed in the Mississippi Delta since emancipation. Most blacks in the region still resided on plantations as sharecroppers and tenant farmers while many others were forced into coerced labor. In fact, in the aftermath of the flood, local law-enforcement authorities arrested thousands of black men, caged them in “pens,” and released them to white planters in need of rebuilding their businesses. The US Justice Department failed to aggressively pursue statutory violations of the Anti-Peonage Act of 1867, interceding reluctantly and sporadically in the region.
The Justice Department’s seeming indifference mirrored that of other federal agencies to blacks, who suffered disproportionately because of the flood. Walter White, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) returned to Association headquarters in New York City, New York from the Mississippi Delta and wrote a scorching review of the failure of federal Jim Crow relief efforts in the flood areas. White revealed the use of federal troops in holding black “peons” in “concentration camps” until their planter employers could claim them.
This report and other confirming newspaper accounts prompted Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who was in charge of relief, to appoint a “Colored Advisory Committee” to investigate the NAACP’s complaints. Hoover’s committee was chaired by Tuskegee Institute president Robert Russa Moton, with eleven other Tuskegeeans as committee members. Hoover hoped that a benign report from the conservative Washington camp would discredit the harsh criticism from the NAACP. Attempting to play both sides against the middle, Moton urged Hoover to use this “grave natural disaster “to create “a sense of freedom and hope” for blacks in the Delta. Refusing to support White’s earlier findings, Moton hoped that this noncritical approach would influence Hoover’s relief efforts in a positive manner. However, Moton’s committee’s report lay dormant on Hoover’s desk for months.
Between January and March 1928, The Crisis (NAACP’s official magazine) ran a series of exposes on the despair, starvation, and exploitation of black labor in the delta. These essays revealed to a national readership that peonage (debt-slavery) bolstered by the Southern convict-lease system still dominated the lives of the vast majority of African Americans in the region.
The Mississippi River Great Flood of 1927
We keep getting told about how republicans freed us from slavery. We don't get told about how republicans treated blacks after it was done.
The Great Flood of 1927; The Treatment of Blacks
Don't be scurred.
Why don't you go back to ancient Egypt and the way Nubians were treated? Or pick a non-black group, say Chinese-that would be more interesting.
No. And since you want to tell us how republicans freed blacks from slavery, you can kiss my ass.
Another one scared to watch the film.
The war was fought by whites to preserve the union and protect the white laborer class from being displaced by black slaves.
The blacks who fought in the war did so with the hope of being free and equal, which by law did not happen until over 100 years later.
Don't think ANYONE is scared to watch the film-I have no interest, hence my comment. And I don't think Republicans freed the blacks-Abolitionists did. The black contribution was very limited.
We keep getting told about how republicans freed us from slavery. We don't get told about how republicans treated blacks after it was done.
The Great Flood of 1927; The Treatment of Blacks
Don't be scurred.
Why don't you go back to ancient Egypt and the way Nubians were treated? Or pick a non-black group, say Chinese-that would be more interesting.
No. And since you want to tell us how republicans freed blacks from slavery, you can kiss my ass.
Another one scared to watch the film.
The war was fought by whites to preserve the union and protect the white laborer class from being displaced by black slaves.
The blacks who fought in the war did so with the hope of being free and equal, which by law did not happen until over 100 years later.
Don't think ANYONE is scared to watch the film-I have no interest, hence my comment. And I don't think Republicans freed the blacks-Abolitionists did. The black contribution was very limited.
Where did I say that you are scared to watch anything?-In blue above
Apparently you are not aware of the involvement of blacks in the abolitionist movement. Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass to name a few.
"Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."
Had the risk of retribution from rabid criminal scum like the KKK been less, and the laws of the land controlling blacks were not so harsh and oppressive, there would have been far more blacks actively fighting for their freedom.
Ok, the lesson here is that neither party did the right thing at one time or another.
The lesson is that republicans here are lying about the record of their party.
Sure I heard of Tubman-the 20 dollar bill failure. Like I said very limited contribution somewhat due to KKK and laws but you minimize then the role of the Union soldier. Still don't want to watch the movie. Did see "Glory" though.Don't think ANYONE is scared to watch the film-I have no interest, hence my comment. And I don't think Republicans freed the blacks-Abolitionists did. The black contribution was very limited.Why don't you go back to ancient Egypt and the way Nubians were treated? Or pick a non-black group, say Chinese-that would be more interesting.
No. And since you want to tell us how republicans freed blacks from slavery, you can kiss my ass.
Another one scared to watch the film.
The war was fought by whites to preserve the union and protect the white laborer class from being displaced by black slaves.
The blacks who fought in the war did so with the hope of being free and equal, which by law did not happen until over 100 years later.
Where did I say that you are scared to watch anything?-In blue above
Apparently you are not aware of the involvement of blacks in the abolitionist movement. Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass to name a few.
"Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."
Had the risk of retribution from rabid criminal scum like the KKK been less, and the laws of the land controlling blacks were not so harsh and oppressive, there would have been far more blacks actively fighting for their freedom.
We keep getting told about how republicans freed us from slavery. We don't get told about how republicans treated blacks after it was done.
Bulls*itWe keep getting told about how republicans freed us from slavery. We don't get told about how republicans treated blacks after it was done.
Lincoln had a complete plan, he was going to deport blacks so they would no longer be a problem. Obviously he didn't live long enough to successfully complete his plan.
<<Abraham Lincoln 'wanted to deport slaves' to new coloniesBulls*it
And you believe the media as gospel. A fool’s gold.<<Abraham Lincoln 'wanted to deport slaves' to new coloniesBulls*it
Abraham Lincoln wanted to ship freed black slaves away from the US to British colonies in the Caribbean even in the final months of his life, it has emerged.>>
Abraham Lincoln 'wanted to deport slaves' to new colonies
Thank youSure I heard of Tubman-the 20 dollar bill failure. Like I said very limited contribution somewhat due to KKK and laws but you minimize then the role of the Union soldier. Still don't want to watch the movie. Did see "Glory" though.Don't think ANYONE is scared to watch the film-I have no interest, hence my comment. And I don't think Republicans freed the blacks-Abolitionists did. The black contribution was very limited.No. And since you want to tell us how republicans freed blacks from slavery, you can kiss my ass.
Another one scared to watch the film.
The war was fought by whites to preserve the union and protect the white laborer class from being displaced by black slaves.
The blacks who fought in the war did so with the hope of being free and equal, which by law did not happen until over 100 years later.
Where did I say that you are scared to watch anything?-In blue above
Apparently you are not aware of the involvement of blacks in the abolitionist movement. Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass to name a few.
"Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."
Had the risk of retribution from rabid criminal scum like the KKK been less, and the laws of the land controlling blacks were not so harsh and oppressive, there would have been far more blacks actively fighting for their freedom.
The role of the union soldiers is not minimized at all.
Their mission was to preserve the union, and eliminate the possibility of white laborers being further displaced by black slaves, and that was accomplished.
Harriet Tubman being placed on a limited circulation 20 dollar bill does not eliminate the fact she led over 300 slaves to freedom.
As far as the "limited"contribution of blacks, oppressive laws prior to the end of the war and a vigilant KKK, after the war for states rights, played far more than "somewhat" of an impact on their contribution to fighting for their freedom.
Those like Nat Turner fought back fearlessly during slavery but unfortunately, there were just not enough of those like him.
And, I still don't care if you watch the video or prefer to rely on fictionalized sources like "Glory" for your history lessons.
We keep getting told about how republicans freed us from slavery. We don't get told about how republicans treated blacks after it was done.
The Great Flood of 1927; The Treatment of Blacks
Don't be scurred.
These things happened during a republican administration.
You DO realize that the South at that time was overwhelmingly Democrat, yes?
Guess not.
No excuses. This was a natural disaster, a federal emergency, handled by a republican administration
Oh dear. 1927? I am innocent. I wasn’t even born.
Thank youSure I heard of Tubman-the 20 dollar bill failure. Like I said very limited contribution somewhat due to KKK and laws but you minimize then the role of the Union soldier. Still don't want to watch the movie. Did see "Glory" though.Don't think ANYONE is scared to watch the film-I have no interest, hence my comment. And I don't think Republicans freed the blacks-Abolitionists did. The black contribution was very limited.The war was fought by whites to preserve the union and protect the white laborer class from being displaced by black slaves.
The blacks who fought in the war did so with the hope of being free and equal, which by law did not happen until over 100 years later.
Where did I say that you are scared to watch anything?-In blue above
Apparently you are not aware of the involvement of blacks in the abolitionist movement. Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass to name a few.
"Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."
Had the risk of retribution from rabid criminal scum like the KKK been less, and the laws of the land controlling blacks were not so harsh and oppressive, there would have been far more blacks actively fighting for their freedom.
The role of the union soldiers is not minimized at all.
Their mission was to preserve the union, and eliminate the possibility of white laborers being further displaced by black slaves, and that was accomplished.
Harriet Tubman being placed on a limited circulation 20 dollar bill does not eliminate the fact she led over 300 slaves to freedom.
As far as the "limited"contribution of blacks, oppressive laws prior to the end of the war and a vigilant KKK, after the war for states rights, played far more than "somewhat" of an impact on their contribution to fighting for their freedom.
Those like Nat Turner fought back fearlessly during slavery but unfortunately, there were just not enough of those like him.
And, I still don't care if you watch the video or prefer to rely on fictionalized sources like "Glory" for your history lessons.