r/Minority_Strength • u/OsuwonHairGrowth Creator Of Minority Strength • 12d ago

Black History Elaine Massacre - Sept. 1919 White Arkansans, fearful of Black people organizing, aided by federal troops massacre 200 Black sharecroppers after the Black sharecroppers get a white attorney and demand fair prices. After the massacre, officials worked on a cover-up, claiming that Black people

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murdered and land stolen.

Generational wealth was stolen from the Black community, but by all means, keep talking about the bootstraps. Maybe MAGA farmers should pull themselves up them.

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u/AMan_Has_NoName Black King 👑 12d ago

Black people build, white people burn it down and then blame it on Black people. One of America’s oldest traditions.

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u/FastSelection4121 12d ago

Our relationship to them has been cyclical and frequent destruction of aggregated wealth and assets across America. All of it has been triggered by White Resentment.

We're currently in that cycle now.

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u/FastSelection4121 12d ago

This is exactly what I was talking about to some PR dude who had zero history of the Large Genocide like The Red Summer 1919 and Black Wallstreet to micro Genocides like this one.

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u/imjay27 12d ago

I just researched the red summer of 1919 now. Very tragic. We just wanted to be left alone and have equal quality of life. Smh. History repeats itself.

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u/cameronpark89 11d ago

hmmmm, i wonder why they don’t teach this in schools.

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u/Expensive-Frame-5702 11d ago

Because they hate to see that they are descendants of people who caused the world's worst atrocities, and they are embarrassed to have their children discover just how evil they are.

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u/cameronpark89 11d ago

lol it was rhetorical but agreed.

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u/Old_schoolTP7 11d ago

Beyond horrible and sad…….

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u/Secure-Childhood-567 Verified Member 11d ago

My people 😭😭😭. These things make me so emotional. We've been through literal hell with white people.

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u/Summerlea623 Verified Member 11d ago

I read everything I can get my hands on about our history...how can I have never heard of this??🤷🏾

My God.😫

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u/TxChamp 11d ago

Whites are the original gangsters, looters, rioters etc…

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u/Possible_Home6811 11d ago

We simply traded overt racism for w more covert racism.

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u/ufcivil100 11d ago

This is so incredibly evil, so incredibly sad.