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"Police violence is systemically rooted in , , , and .

"According to Eastern Kentucky University professor Victor E. Kappeler, 'New England settlers appointed Indian Constables to police Native Americans (National Constable Association, 1995), the St. Louis police were founded to protect residents from Native Americans in that frontier city, and many southern police departments began as slave patrols. In 1704, the colony of Carolina developed the nation’s first slave patrol. Slave patrols helped to maintain the economic order and to assist the wealthy landowners in recovering and punishing slaves who essentially were considered property.'

"According to the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice 'The racial group most likely to be killed by law enforcement is Native Americans, followed by African Americans, Latinos, Whites, and Asian Americans.' This is not to argue Indigenous folks’ oppression …

I recently posted information about an American Experience video that aired a week ago entitled "American Coup: Wilmington 1898."

The video focuses on the racial massacre and carefully orchestrated coup that took place in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. White supremacists murdered Black residents of the city and overthrew its duly elected multi-racial government.


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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/american-coup-wilmington-1898/

"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


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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/american-coup-how-cover-coup/

Today I learned that pineapples are not native to Hawaii. Why? Colonialism.

“James Dole identified Hawaii as the ideal location for farming and trade of this cash crop fruit. The Dole Corporation ultimately displaced Hawaiian sovereignty, ruling for a time as a republic, before ultimately influencing Congress to adopt the islands as a state.”

https://academic.oup.com/whq/article-abstract/41/4/512/1880603

Today in Labor History November 10, 1898: White supremacists launched a coup d’etat in Wilmington, North Carolina. The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 is the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in U.S. history. The local white press declared it a race riot, caused by blacks, but it was actually a coup by members of the state's Democratic party, who conspired and led a mob of 2,000 white men to overthrow the legitimately elected biracial government. They deported opposition black and white political leaders from the city and may have killed over 300 people. They destroyed black property and businesses, including the only black newspaper in the city. And they got away with it, too. Charles Aycock, one of the main organizers, went on to become governor of North Carolina. Rebecca Felton, a feminist who supported equal pay for women and the lynching of black residents, went on to …

Mob posing by the ruins of The Daily Record. By Unknownderivative work: MagentaGreen - This file was derived from: Wilmington vigilantes.tif:, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43151021

Kamala Harris, as the only presidential candidate ever with experience - and succeess - across all three branches of the government, is the most qualified candidate in American history.

A woman, of immigrant parents, and a member of two groups of visible minority, she is the truest embodiment of the American Dream itself.

Trump is a stain of unmerited entitlement born of and , the embodiment of the national nightmare in syndicated, never-ending rerun.