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Woodie Guthrie song about Fred Trump
Today in Labor History May 31, 1921: The Tulsa Race Riot. From May 31 through June 1, deputized whites (i.e., racist vigilantes) killed more than 300 African Americans in the worst race riot in U.S. history. The violence began in response to a false report in the Tulsa Tribune accusing a black man of attacking a white girl in an elevator. The headline made the front page. However, there was an accompanying editorial that called for a lynching. White Tulsans went to the African American community of Greenwood (the Black Wall Street) and started shooting black people. They looted and burned 40 square blocks, destroying over 1,400 African American homes, hospitals, schools, and churches. Ten thousand became homeless and had to spend the winter of 1921 living in tents.
Many African American residents fought back, including veterans of World War One. This attempt at self-preservation prompted the deputized whites and National Guardsmen to arrest 6,000 black residents. Furthermore, they bombarded the community from the air in what was likely the first aerial bombardment of mainland U.S. residents. At least a dozen planes, some carrying police, circled the community and dropped burning balls of turpentine. They also shot at residents from the air. Many of the whites were members of the Klan, such as W. Tate Brady, who had also participated in the tarring and feathering of members of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1917.
Just a few months later, the government again bombarded civilians from the air, during the Battle of Blair Mountain, when 15,000 coal miners battled 3,000 cops, private cops and vigilantes, in the largest insurrection since the Civil War. Up to 100 miners died in the fighting, along with 10-30 Baldwin-Felts detectives and three national guards.
You can read my full article on the Battle of Blair Mountain here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
Today in Labor History May 31, 1927: Fred Trump, father Donald Trump, was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens, New York. The Long Island Daily Press reported that all the arrestees, including Trump, were wearing Klan robes. During his presidential campaign, Journalists asked Donald Trump about his father's arrest. He claimed "it never happened."
Well well! Like father, like son!
@digyoursoul and the democrates still Hopkins they Will win the 2026 elections. Well there Will be no 2026 elections. And if there Will be elections they Will be rigged, moving out millions of voters who may not vote anymore. Up to a white supremacist society like in the old days. #kkk #slavery #workcamps #mental ill Camps.
I don’t think I can say it better or more succinctly than Mr. Lawrence Ware. I’ll add that the carefully coded hate speech from #TFG and his #KKK sycophants on TV every day from the Whitest House has been adding nuclear fuel to the fire. Criminals. #FuckRacism #uspol https://www.theroot.com/why-things-have-only-gotten-worse-for-black-folks-in-th-1851782348
@hosford42 Our Canadian media ignored it. Despite #KKK having factions in #Canada for 100+ years. No surprise that their biggest main bases here were in Alberta, Saskatchewan & northern BC.
Today in Labor History May 22, 2002: Nearly 41 years later, a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, finally convicted former KKK member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 16th Street Baptist church bombing that killed four girls.
Today in Labor History May 14, 1961: Racists bombed and burned a bus full of Freedom Riders in Alabama. They shot out the tires and threw smoke bombs into the bus, and then attacked the occupants with sticks. Racist doctors at the local hospital refused to treat the wounded.
Give me your white supremacists… Today's cartoon by Ramses. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc
Dire qu'il y a du monde qui sont correct avec ça.
#PierrePoilievre #Conservative #Conservateur #Canada #CanPoli #PoliCan #KKK #WhiteSupremacists #WhiteNationalism
**Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter**
#Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #KKK #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodons @bookstodon
It used to be that #kkk wore hoods to hide their faces in shame
Now We Can Name them and BOYCOTT
website listing MAGA-friendly businesses (it’s called Public Square, in case you’re wondering) is backfiring as people are using it to find out who to boycott.
1/2 Ex-kokoomuksen kansanedustaja ja Stadin apulaispormestari, nyk. Stadin #KKK:n toimari #PiaPakarinen kirjoittaa häemmentävänä itsestään selvyytenä, että #Euroviisut järjestettäisiin Stadissa, jos #ErikaVikman voittaisi.
Eiköhän #Tampere ole atm todennäköisempi vaihtoehto, kun #HelsinkiHalli on seissyt vuosia tyhjillään, ja #NokiaAreena on samanaikaisesti isännöinyt jos mitä suurtapahtumia (mm. #UMK:n).
#Viisut #Pakarinen #kokoomus #Hesinki #Manse #tapahtumat #Vikman
In an ironic twist D. W. Griffith followed up his pro-KKK film *The Birth of a Nation* (1915) with *Intolerance* (1916) which was surprisingly not anti-tolerance. I imagine that Griffith saw formerly enslaved black people as being intolerant of their benevolent masters.
I've seen neither film. Nor have I seen *Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl* (1919, for some reason usually referred to as simply *Broken Blossoms*) based on the short story *The Chink and the Child*. The racial politics of that film were apparently fine **for its time** but awful by any objective standard.
I wouldn't rule out watching Griffith's films but I don't envision a scenario in which I could watch a pro-KKK film with an "open mind" and enjoying it for aesthetic or technical reasons.