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I think the answer is less complicated than you might think.
It's because they were black.
The government really hated black people at the time should be the legit answer and sometimes I think the Republicans still do.
Sometimes? They all collectively lost their shit when a black man became president. Like, our current situation is partly a result of that.
Some of those that burn crosses, are the same that hold office.
Exactly. Don’t give the racist that much credit. It wasn’t a well thought out plan. It was simply “fuck them ngrs”
It’s not all that deep. Unfortunately. I wish it was a grand plan. It’s not. It’s just “fuck em”
Everyone keeps saying that but how come not poor whites in the mountains or the huge asain in the west at the time? To me I would give some to the white mountain people, majority to asains and some to blacks. Did they just throw a dart at a dart board and it landed on blacks or was it we fucked over the blacks time after time so lets fuck them over again?
Basically, people were already really racist against black people, so it’s easier to just continue that narrative. Build upon all the lies that were used to try and justify enslaving black people to make poor people, including other black people who believe the lies, blame black people for all their problems. That way we fight amongst ourselves instead of looking at and justly blaming the people with power and money
Before Trump’s rise it had become not-okay to be openly racist in most of the country so they had to pivot to openly attacking a different group: queer people, specifically trans people. (They were still very racist, just less open about it.) Blaming a minority or marginalized group is a classic conservative move to stop people from developing class consciousness and realizing that a poor cis straight white man has infinitely more in common with a poor queer trans black woman than a rich (like billionaire rich) cis straight white man
Relevant section from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
I’ve never read that before. Thanks for sharing it!
Why would anyone care about poor whites in the mountains? Let them survive in their hovels and shovel coal. They had no organization or other power to affect anyone
Anti-black racism has been a cornerstone of America since Jamestown
It's so they can make them felons so they can't vote. They considered black people to be animals, not people.
That's exactly the reason why cocaine was made illegal, because it's not a felony to be black.
It's also the reason marijuana is schedule 1. Can't throw hippies in prison just for being hippies.
Because when you villify one group, the others will join you to fight against them.
If the poor whites and the poor blacks and the poor immigrants ever realized that they're all on the same team, there wouldn't be anyone to fight for the rich.