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[O_Postrophe @Obraecb]

This tragedy occurred (and was common) during the Jim Crow era.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1898, the federally appointed postmaster for Lake City, South Carolina, Frazier Baker, was lynched, along with his baby daughter, Julia. This was a lynching by bullets, which also hit his wife, Lavinia and four of their children. The crime which incensed the white mob that descended on their house (also the town post office)? That of being a black postmaster - no more, no less. And no one was ever convicted.

White supremacists all over the South were infuriated at President McKinley's postings of Black federal employees; he had spoken out against lynching in order to secure the Black vote when he was running for president. This sentiment led directly to the massacre in Wilmington later that year, which destroyed the Black prosperity in that North Carolina port and turned the previously majority-Black town majority-White, practically overnight. It also dismantled the rising and theretofore successful Fusionist party, a coalition of working class Blacks and Whites.

This picture was taken after Lavinia Baker and her five surviving children escaped and relocated up to Boston; the faces say it all.

People love to talk about 'get over it' and 'slavery was so long ago' and 'Black people love to be victims' - when the issue is truly systemic and not dismantled in a day. We will be fighting the results of how our society was formed (and how that formation is protected by white supremacy to this day) for a long time. And let's not forget that the white poor (and that of every other race) also get left behind in this scheme which only benefits the few.

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[O_Postrophe @Obraecb]

@wheetz @TerryWatkinsJr1 Here we go again. SMH. WTH is up with these horrible candidates?

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Trump wants to hide the truth about the cruelty of slavery

[Derenic Byrd @DerenicByrd]

They deleted messages from Wells phone but the police said they haven’t seen any evidence of foul play. This is America!

[👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 @WonderKing82]

He also need to release his tax returns. What is he hiding from the people in Michigan.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

If you have nothing to hide, then just release the tax returns. These trump tactics are an extremely bad look.

[Amene @Ange_Amene]

White people who don’t speak ill of Republicans and Republican voters are the OPP.

[Ashley Etienne @AshleyEtienne09]

What was lost in the debate about the Dem autopsy was where the money went. $8b spent across the ecosystem, yet only 1% was invested in Black voters. Appalling! Read my oped in Essence Magazine, “The Party We Built, the Bill Has Come Due.” I layout what we should demand f/Party.

[O_Postrophe @Obraecb]

@trouble_man90 If I ran for office as unkempt and disheveled-looking as him, people would not take me seriously.

[Tim @trouble_man90]

He was. You notice how leftist campaigns fizzle out after they beat the normie Dem in the primary; their goal is to defeat democrats, not republicans.

He had all the smoke for Democrats but for Collins it was a dry ass “in 130 days I’m going to defeat Susan Collins”. His heart wasn’t in it

[Tiff4Mahogany_44 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 NATO MEMBER @tiff4mahogany]

And these people pretend they care about poor & working class Americans.

If the system is destroyed I can tell you with 100% certainty that rich people won’t be hurt in this environment.

[Amene @Ange_Amene]

When Eric dropped out he did it with no say so in the future.

Not sure why that white man thinks he’s exempt.

[Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) @cbouzy]

Graham Platner and his advisors are trying to hold Democrats hostage. We tried to tell y'all this man is a piece of shit, and his advisors are also pieces of shit. He needs to step aside immediately, and his advisors should never work in politics again.

[DJ P👀H @DJPooh]

Remembering Mr John Witherspoon

[Domo Julio @DapperDomo]

The real psyop is white nationalists infiltrating the Democratic Party under the guise of socialism.

[William A Goldsborough @WmAG_V]

Consistent voter who wont be deterred from voting for white supremacy.

Meanwhile, her opposition actively seeks reasons to not vote 🙄

[Amene @Ange_Amene]

Say what you will about establishment candidates but they VET CANDIDATES AND LEAVE WHEN ASKED.

People endorsed by Bernie Sanders don’t understand basic decorum and respect.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Karmelo Anthony was deprived of a fair trial

[William A Goldsborough @WmAG_V]

And he's still in good running to win the election in November. Texans love a corrupt maga republican to keep the Blacks in line 😏

[Qondi @QondiNtini]

This is the kind of unequivocal statement all elected Democrats should be making

Our values and integrity should be non-negotiable

Thank you, Senator Warnock

PS When Black people warn the white electorate about a candidate they should LISTEN

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

More evidence that Mitch McConnell is likely dead. The state legislature voted to erect a statue of him, but in Kentucky, you’re not supposed to erect statues of living people. 🧐