Isaac Woodard, WWII veteran, hours after being honorably discharged, was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND
The officers were acquitted by an all white jury
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Happy Birthday to Emmett Till. He would've been 82 years old today.
At just 14, two white men kidnapped and brutally murdered him through mutilation for 'whistling' at a white woman.
decades later, Carolyn Bryant admitted to lying that Emmett Till made a pass at her.
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Today in 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia.
After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting and bleeding. By the time he was seen, he needed a blood transfusion. The doctors said the hospital had no “black blood.” Snipes died two days later.
This is why I will vote in every election. The day I stop voting is the day I stop breathing. #FreshVotesBlue #BlackHistoryWithLana
These are the ACTUAL SURVIVORS who escaped death and watched the MURDER of their loved ones.
America paid reparations to the JAPANESE for internment during WWII.
It paid reparations to Jews for the Holocaust, which didn’t even happen in America.
America is so antiBlack it won’t pay reparations to actual Black victims.
The world we live in…
5 billionaires on an adventure, lost in the depths of the ocean =
24 hour news coverage + an international $ multimillion search and rescue mission.
Hundreds of desperate migrants seeking refuge, lost at sea =
Barely a mention in the news, rescuers facing prison time for their efforts, far less resources spent.
…wealth above all else.