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"For millions of students passing through North Carolina’s public schools, learning from textbooks that never mentioned the deadly 1898 coup d’etat in their state, it was as though that event never happened. 'I took several courses on North Carolina history throughout my middle school and high school career,' Dr. Crystal Sanders, today a history professor at Emory University, told American Experience."
~ Kirstin Butler
#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Wilmington
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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/american-coup-how-cover-coup/
“'And I never recall hearing about the Wilmington Insurrection.' ...
'The story of the Wilmington coup is so important for American history,' said Carol Anderson, Sanders’s academic colleague at Emory University.'"
#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Wilmington #NorthCarolina #coup #AmericanHistory
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@wdlindsy@toad.social"'We have to understand the conditions that allowed a duly elected government to be overthrown in a democracy. The only way that we can deal with this is not to slough it off as "this is not who we are, this is not what we do," but is to understand, "yes, we did this. And that we will never do this again.’”
#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Wilmington #NorthCarolina #coup #AmericanHistory
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As the Wilmington story tells us, coups are part and parcel of US history — particular white supremacist ones. And the story also tells us that history can be erased by those intent on covering up what they've done, intent on disappearing the people they have trodden down.
As in the past, so in the present….
Yes, this is absolutely who we are.
#racism #WhiteSupremacy #Wilmington #NorthCarolina #coup #AmericanHistory
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Truth hurts sometimes. But no one can truly stand tall without facing it.
@wdlindsy TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre
So https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre was part of a pattern! I need to slowly go through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
@akkartik Yes, a longstanding pattern. There was the pattern of the Red Shirts in South Carolina terrorizing Black voters and driving them from the state. There was the pattern of white uprisings in northwest Louisiana (Colfax and Coushatta, where my father was born) to target Black citizens who dared to vote and terrorize Reconstruction leaders and drive them from the state. There's a lot of history that has been ignored or forgotten about that's part of this large pattern.