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| Topic | Most tragic day in US history? |
| xp1337 06/12/21 1:50:40 AM #39: | The Tulsa massacre is a good candidate. Not just for the horrific events, but how it was swept under the rug to the point that many people first heard of it from Watchmen. On that same note, I'd offer up a candidate in the Wilmington, North Carolina insurrection and massacre - in which a mob of white supremacists murdered and burned down the property of black citizens, forced the legitimately elected mayor, board of alderman, and police chief to resign at gunpoint, and installed their own government, exiled black and white political opposition (who hadn't already fled in terror) from the city by literally marching them out of the city, immediately got to the work of disenfranchising black voters via poll taxes, etc. and again... completely got away with it. Though, in this case, I consider what happened in Wilmington that day (November 10, 1898) to be a direct consequence of the forced ending of Reconstruction as I outlined earlier. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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