The first thing that came to mind when I saw the headline was the experience of southern Blacks trying to vote between 1870 and 1965. The White terrorists made sure America was not a democracy. The thing now is that more of our White brothers and sisters are starting to find out this truth, and it is shocking.

Still streets behind I’m afraid…

“The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States, 1880-1950” states that, contrary to present-day popular conception, lynching was not a crime committed exclusively against black people. Between the 1830s and the 1850s the majority of those lynched in the United States were whites. From 1882-1968, some 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States (not all lynchings were recorded). Of these, 3,446 or 73 percent were black and 1,297 (27 percent) were white. In other words, whites were the victims of more than one-fourth of all lynchings in the United States.

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2017/09/25/many-whites-were-lynched-fighting-racism-opinion/700690001/

Now, the first Black man to vote in Alabama (maybe it was Georgia, going off memory) was shot in the back by the Klan. But before they used violence primarily against minorities, they first used it against any white person who was publicly against racism.

But if we’re talking about white people finally figuring this shit out, that was almost 200 years ago.

None of this shit is new, and the reason we’re still having to fight, is people refuse to learn how long we’ve been fighting.