How 1919 Elaine Massacre Influenced Richard Wright, Acclaimed Author of "Black Boy" & "Native Son"

This weekend marked the 103rd anniversary of the 1919 Elaine massacre, one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. The violence started on September 30, 1919, when guards stopped two white men from breaking into a meeting between Black sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas, who were organizing to demand fair payments for their crops. After an exchange of gunfire, a white man was killed. White mobs, backed by the U.S. military, responded with three days of anti-Black violence, indiscriminately killing hundreds of Black people under the false claim of stopping a Black insurrection. Much of the Black farmers' land was stolen as a result. We speak to Julia Wright, daughter of the acclaimed Black author Richard Wright, who called Elaine home and wrote about his great-uncle Silas Hoskins's lynching in Elaine three years prior in 1916. Wright says she saw the lynching in a new light after the murder of George Floyd. "Two lynchings separated by so many years and yet so similar," says Wright. We also speak with Paul Ortiz, historian at the University of Florida, who recalls the nationwide crusade, which included journalist Ida B. Wells, to seek justice for the Black farmers who remained and were taken into custody after the massacre, and ultimately won their freedom.
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[@sabrinasmiley8903]

"There's a lot to say about Black silence." Chills...we will never forget❤️

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[@mattrobinson47]

Thank you for covering this. After a century of silence, the truth is coming out.

[@queenmommie100]

It's time truth has been poured out by TMH God ⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️ 400+ yrs has been paid back. Now it's esau trouble and the gentiles tribulation time on the earth 🌎⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️. It's our Jubilee restoration time IsRael JUDAH.

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@@queenmommie100 Thank you sister

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[@Fudgaboutit]

Yeah sure tell yourself that

[@jujutrini8412]

Two years before this was the East St. Louis massacres ie 1917. 6,000 people left homeless, over a hundred people murdered and $400,000 ($8.46 million in today’s money). I only mention it to remind people that apart from this one in Elaine and the one in Tulsa there are many many more.

[@gabrielmaroto18]

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[@malkahbatyisrael8606]

THANK YOU for sharing the info! Shalom 🦁❤🖤💚

[@shawnwest4350]

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[@thefallofthewicked5865]

The Red Summer of 1918

[@swannoir7949]

@@thefallofthewicked5865 Chicago, and many other cities in that year.

[@nowthatsacookie]

Reparations aren’t owed? With ALL they have done they couldn’t begin to pay what is owed. It is an INFINITE amount!

[@sinkpehnarossfire454]

🌎: " Don't forget its their queensPopeKingsDictators that they learned from, and they want to be high up, be owners of all, they don't want to work either..... its a good curriculum for writing lessons about the individual behaviors of those queensPopeKingsDictators we have heard of. There's more. You don't know of the people behind all the money, on Earth. USA has the Federal Reserve, that's the money taken/used from the poor workers, by JP Morgan and others. The usa was broke, the Federal Reserve 'loaned' money to usa. Its time to teach accurate history. The loaned money and current Interest Rates? That money belongs to you, your ancestors. Just a thought.

[@shawnwest4350]

the real crazy thing it's documented all the land they stold bank's and the federal government people got property on stolen land that was paid for in cash just like the people still alive from the Tulsa massacre the federal government and the state always wait to the people die them claim it was along time ago it's well documented slaves was going to court against this w. s. system god don't like ugly

[@nowthatsacookie]

@@sinkpehnarossfire454 Ah, yes! The good ol’ Federal “cartel” Reserve, that Creature from Jekyll Island. Interesting thought! Thanks!

[@sinkpehnarossfire454]

@@nowthatsacookie Just teach it. All those coming herecwere cruelly treated. By the time Ellis Island began, the brits&vatican had placed thousands of unwanted orphans and other unwanteds 'in their new lands'. There are millions here that are probably dual citizens (🤯) and as before, the vaticanOwners are the real rulers. Via businesses and money. That's been ongoing, but by 1066 A.D. the beginnings of Bill of Rights began. Similar to now, Mother Earth and Mother Nature had climate Cleansed everything. The poor, who were left, had power now. The elites alive couldn't plant a garden. They didn't know how. They have their peasants serfs slaves. This time, all the people will make new power stands and win. This time? The Youth, Activists and Artists will win again, they did in 2020. The previous administration always disregard many groups. They lost. Those American kids-students are savvy and they're learning the electoral 'system'. Please Pardon Errors Past Present Tense Typos Etcetera.

[@queenmommie100]

God will pay us our Jubilee restoration Juneteenth not man. He said that he would give everything that the caterpillar canker worm have taken from his 12 Tribes children on our Land. This is our Land they didn't follow God's laws status and commandments. They are being 🧹🌪️🌊🌡️🔥🌋⛱️💨💥🥶⚖️⚔️off the lands by TMH God. Judgement is on the Earth 🌎 APTTMHGY.

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Self-defense is a Human right, only dictators & criminals disagree

[@micixduda]

Yeah but Kyle went looking for it, he should root in jail!

[@josephinelemian]

Pp

[@goodtiymz8296]

Absolutely, reparations are owed to the descendants of American Slaves and American Freedmen for human rights violations amount other violations and genocide.

[@rieweems6387]

Only dictators

[@CranesNotSkyHooks]

I read Richard Wright 's "Black Boy" in my junior year of highschool. It's a harrowing read, with a lot of unforgettable moments through the book. His uncle's lynching happens fairly early on in the book if I'm remembering it correctly, I had no idea that it was connected to this massacre. Thanks Democracy Now for this report.

[@swannoir7949]

I need to read his and Langston Hughes books.

[@vanellesmith4598]

Wow so did I! I will never forget the atrocities happened right here. To many of our people.

[@buckeyewill2166]

Richard Wright was banned in his native state Mississippi l His book would be banned in Florida today.

[@evelyngilbert5020]

My dad was born in Mississippi on March 28, 1919. He had only been dead one year ago as he lived to the ripe old age of 102. Might I add that he was a vital man who still drove and lived alone. Still had a vegetable garden every year that he grew. I have no doubt he would have lived even longer had his condition been properly diagnosed by the veteran’s administration hospital. One day after going to another hospital he was diagnosed accurately. He lived about 3 months following his proper diagnosis of bone cancer in an advanced stage. No one will take this case because everyone just wants to chalk it up to old age which is a lie. It was a malpractice and improper diagnosis of the real problem to cover for VA’s malpractice. They even rigged his death certificate to falsely state the actual cause of his death to keep VA looking clean. It is tragic and terribly unfair to his memory and to us his family. He fought for this horrid nation during WWII under general Patton old blood and guts himself on the front lines as a supply driver.

[@sknmwms6516]

Make them pay!!!

[@kkmichelle314]

My sincere condolences. You def had a hell of a Father. I wish my family would have opened up yet some just choose to put things in the back of their mind 😪 Nothing has changed when it comes to black ppl and medicine they still teach that we can endure pain. Unfortunately they're refusing to hire black Dr's in 2022 So I'm not surprised & the VA is the worst. God Bless

[@japhya0378]

God bless your father and my condolences to you and your family for your loss.

[@evelyngilbert5020]

@@japhya0378 Thank you for the love

[@mychloebaby1]

The VA is a whole other monster, in and of itself. They don't accept malpractice claims and allow med students and interns to come and "practice" for that reason. Sad thing is most veterans only have one choice to receive medical care and that's the VA. So, you get injured in the military, and can only be seen by those that have injured you. The medical records are constantly doctored, no pun intended, to show the need for this prejudice meat factory. I know from experience. Post Script (PS), I don't know how old you are, but you look like you're in your very early 40's, if that. However, my assumption is if your dad was born in 1919, you may be a tad bit older. I never paid attention to people of other races saying "black don't crack" in your case it's an absolute fact. You look lovely, this is coming from another slightly older black lady like you. We are truly blessed to have been created in our Father's, The Most High's, image. Shalom Sis.

[@villedocvalle]

Evermore reasons why Democracy Now! Is a national treasure.

[@levmoses742]

Global I bet.

[@TruFinesse86]

No other group has done what we’ve done in this Country and No Other Group has been treated like us either. No other group fights against oppression and injustices like us….REPARATIONS NOW

[@hughjassle5876]

Reparations from whom, and to whom?

[@gasparyanga3415]

@@hughjassle5876 easu the living descendants of those your descendants your ancestors oppressed and continue to oppress

[@hughjassle5876]

@@gasparyanga3415 we belive man shall be punished for his own sins, and not [the sins of his fathers]. There is not a single living American that owned, or owns slaves. There is not a single living American that is, or was a slave. Anti-black racism is so rare the majority of incidents are fabricated as false flags. In this country there is no law pertaining to any people of color that does not also pertain to whites. Anyone legally in this country has the same rights and opportunities as anyone else regardless of color. If there is so much oppression toward blacks, tell me why black Africans are immigrating here in record numbers, and then out performing indigenous blacks in education and income...by a wide margin. Trust me, son. You don't wanna debate this with me. I've done the homework.

[@gasparyanga3415]

@@hughjassle5876 then stop paying the white Jews and so called white Native Americans.

[@jowhit226]

@@hughjassle5876 Either you lack a complete understanding of how reparations work, or you are just spouting useless rhetoric. Either way you are wrong when it comes to the issue of reparations.

[@FoxNewsChannelSux]

The Red Summer of 1919. How many of us learned about that in school? Certainly not me.

[@grmpEqweer]

Not me either. Edit: There was so many others...heard about Slocum, Texas? People are still being blocked from investigating that, looking for the mass graves.

[@levmoses742]

Yup! We were not supposed to know and it’s exactly why they are banning books and changing history now. It’s all our responsibility to make sure our youth know the true stories of our country. It’s the only path that will allow ALL of us to be prosperous and free.

[@dianadowie3985]

I didn't learn about this Massacre! My daughter who has a History degree didn't learn about this History! Thank you for telling us about this dark History!

[@bigh9884]

I second that!

[@mychloebaby1]

No one learned it.

[@Ianpact]

Thank you, Julia Wright, Paul Ortiz, Amy, and DN! crew.

[@Keithlfpieterse]

Having grown up in South Africa UNDER APARTHEID I read books about massacres under slavery in the USA and the resistance of the Civil Rights Movement. At the same time I witnessed the shooting of unarmed students on the streets of Cape Town by the racist armed forces. Black history is not only that which has been recorded in books and manuscripts. We LIVE IT, we BREATHE it, we tell it to our children; it flows in our veins, we carry it in our hearts AND yet like many of my peers I was taught to FIGHT BUT NOT to HATE even before I became a teenager. STAY STRONG and keep Black History ALIVE!

[@dianegreen1937]

They taught you wrong about the hate part! Your supposed to LOVE those that would torment/kill you. You are out your darn mind. .No freaking way! Brainwashing is a sin within itself. 🙄🤷🏾‍♀️

[@charlenef7138]

It's OWED to the ANCESTORS & the generations to COME to speak the names, tell the story of the stolen lives. Each one teach one each one reach one, be humble, be proud, be brave to claim the right to stand, the right to stay, the right to live one's own way. AS AN OLD PERSON you grow into understanding that there are some types & minds that are opposed to me JUST CAUSE of the melanin of my skin, I SAY OKAY to that, and I can accept that - and GOT DAMN IT LIVE & LET LIVE, cause that's ALL I want to do is LIVE and be left alone NOT preyed upon because I came up with an idea you didn't, or I hustled a little harder than you wouldn't or couldn't let me love who will love me even if that's a person resembling a likeness of you Don't try to dismiss or wash away my reality or tell me my reality is fake CAUSE you never experienced it. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE & there ARE good and bad amongst us all, but more are good wanting peace to enjoy a life of being accepted and loved. The BLACK MANS BURDEN IS VERY HEAVY not many are strong enough nor willing to CARRY.

[@Keithlfpieterse]

@@charlenef7138 : Hi Charlene, thanks for sharing your stream of consciousness with me. It is an affirmation of what I think and it encapsulates what I expressed to some of my comrades and friends back in the 1980's when we were waging war against the racist apartheid regime in South Africa. I was inspired by the writings of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and all the good writers in the U S of A who articulated both their pain and ours albeit that we had been born and raised continents apart. I would tell my friends who were writers and poets: "It is our duty to keep the written word alive!"The connecting threads of our history - yours and mine and of Black people across the planet - is the TAPESTRY OF BLACK LIVES. Your statement about being "Both humble and Proud" resonates with what I think, feel, dream and try to express in my own way. I wish you well from the bottom of my heart. KEEP WELL and STAY STRONG BLACK WOMAN! I wish you tons of creativity and productivity in the years ahead!

[@Keithlfpieterse]

@@charlenef7138 : Footnote: Herein lies the key and I quote...you: "Each one teach one each one reach one, be humble, be proud, be brave to claim the right to stand, the right to stay, the right to live one's own way." You took the words right out of my mouth! Keep well!

[@mlynettepinky595]

Thank you for sharing this story, I never heard about this. It's bad enough they don't teach anything in schools I took a African American history class, early 2000's, when I took college classes online. It was a lot I didn't know And now Republicans like Abbott and DeSantis are trying to stop history like this in schools, which is needed now. When we have kids having slave auctions at school and Black kids going along with it thinking it's just a prank and funny.

[@blandantey]

they have slave auctions at school? And this is not a play for learning experiences but a real slave auction? Which school? And what year did this happen?

[@gabriellew.1164]

Nobody will ever teach black children what they need to know to survive except black people! Period.

[@vanellesmith4598]

Education my dear, starts at home and in our communities. It is time for us to stop being foolish and believing the descendents and immigrants of the of colonialists and evil intelligent men and women who started all of this will give you anything. Anything at all. We can do more together with each other and never need anyone outside of our community. Don't believe me. Look at every other community but the Black community, ( if I can even call it a community)

[@gabriellew.1164]

@@vanellesmith4598 Every other community has not been bombed and murdered and homes burned to the ground! 248 FBA DoAS towns around America, the country DoAS built physically and economically!!! Do you know Black American history??? These other peoples you say look at, they were treated like FBA DoAS in their own countries, they didn't fight back, they didn't build up their own country or fight fir change, they fled, they ran to America, where they get funding, help, and a tool for white America to continue to show their disdain for DoAS to keep down as the permanent underclass! If you're from an immigrant background, please, stay out of FBA DoAS business! If you're FBA DoAS, please, educate yourself and read your history (again)!!! I thought I knew some things, didn't know the half of it until I started learning from the Black Media and seen their receipts!!!

[@cwarren6625]

They all are going to pay for what they have hidden about our ancestors and what they are doing to.. and I'm so happy. The Most High is making them bring out the truth and that's just amazing and all praises goes to Our Heavenly Father Shalom.

[@larryjones-emery807]

I am now 78 years old. I have 4 college degrees. Videos such as this blessing teaches me still about my nation and my people.

[@judyvaughn761]

I absolutely love democracy now and I totally love Amy I'm a 74-year-old so-called African American woman and a lot of things that I've learned from watching her I never knew anything about because as this woman is saying silence is something that black people use in my opinion to protect themselves WOW

[@chaserofthelight1737]

I am a 68 year old so called white woman, I too love Democracy Now. I’m only learning the utter depths of oppression brought on by my pale brothers and sisters. I already knew there were no words to say to describe the depravity cast upon you still too this day. The powers that be actually hide this stuff from people like me. It’s sad to me that so many need to hold themselves over other beings to “feel” they have self-worth. What they don’t know, in this 21st century they’ve only strengthen your resolve, made to “have” to be stronger to rise above their distain. I look at myself and I don’t know if I could have done what you and others have done, if I’d had the strength to overcome. I believe you are a strong, great, and wondrous being. Though it changes nothing, I give you my humble apologies. May you and yours walk in grace all the days of your life. ✨🙏✨🌹✨❤️‍🔥✨🌹✨🙏✨

[@yvonnenoel7206]

@@chaserofthelight1737 , I'm in tears right now. Thank you, Thank you for acknowledging our pain. As Maya Angelou said, *Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better*. If anyone, at your age can find sympathy for our cause, then I'm hopeful for the world.

[@chaserofthelight1737]

@@yvonnenoel7206 if I may I’d like to suggestion a song if you haven’t heard it, I heard a gentleman talking about it… Iron Sky (Abby Road Live Session). ❤️‍🔥

[@yvonnenoel7206]

@@chaserofthelight1737 , Thank you. I will google it. Edit...Just listened to the song. I'm familiar with the Artist Paolo Nutini. The lyrics are brilliant, empowering and dare I say prophetic. Though Thought-provoking, it makes one hope and believe that one day the World would be a better place for everyone. I'm going to share this with my family and friends. Blessings to you and to @Judy Vaughn, whose Post/comment was instrumental in you and I having a beautiful conversation. ✌🏽 🕊️

[@queenmommie100]

We are the chosen people of the Bible it's our history book along with all history. I pray that you seek out more Truth about our his. This is our jubilee Juneteenth restoration time by TMH God. Please follow Big Judah out of California and Kurimo they show all of our history that was once hidden by our Creator TMH God. We paid for our ancestors disobedience for 400+yrs 1619-2019= 400 years. Now we are the head and esau and the gentiles are the tail. No more Jacob's trouble on the earth we are of the bloodline of Jacob. Our ancestors Abraham had a covenant with God this is why we are being saved under our bloodline and our ancestors covenant. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@swannoir7949]

And they wonder why we have no generational wealth.

[@jewellquander2444]

Thank you! Can't wait for Part 2.

[@GladysAlicea]

It's at DN website.

[@andresrtorres6895]

How can SCHOOLS teach about these silent experiences without teaching so-called "Critical Race Theory"? There are not enough lies waiting to be invented that can perpetuate the silence indefinitely. Truth does not kill us, but it can make us very uncomfortable.

[@blandantey]

The way i have seen critical race theory being thought in elementary schools is wrong. You don't segregate the class by race to teach a subject. You teach it in a comprehensive way without trying to disturb your student's mentality.

[@romaskincare9138]

Schools absolutely should teach the true history of what happened to Black Americans and Native Americans. It's incredible how the school system did not teach any American history at all. . For generations, "history lessons" in school was just learning dates and indoctrination. That's why so many Americans don't know anything about these massacres, they don't know about Redlining, they know nothing about Native Americans or what "Reservations" actually are, why they were created ... it was all hidden and hiding all that history is a tremendous continued injustice. . So yes, schools, as well as tv shows and movies (because that's how many Americans learn history) should be completely honest and teach the truth. . Critical Race Theory though is not the same thing as teaching history. CRT is the theory that the United States was created to uplift the white race, and in order to do that, all laws and policies were created to oppress People of Color for the benefit of white people. . Therefore every institution in America, such as the criminal justice system, the medical industry, schools ... etc were all created with racism infused in their formation in order to hold People of Color back and give white people all the advantages. . For example, let's say the teacher is doing a social studies/civics lesson on medical services: With CR Theory the lesson would be similar to this. - A hospital thats in the suburbs is well staffed and has enough equipment and resources. But a hospital in the less expensive part of the city is run down, needs some repairs, is understaffed, and it doesn't have enough resources. The reason the hospitals are so different is because the hospital in the suburbs has mostly white patients. And the owner of the hospital and the town health inspectors.. etc keeps the hospital running smoothly. . Where as the hospital that's run down is in a community where there are many People of Color, and that is why the owner and inspectors don't care about keeping it in good shape. Because the patients there are not white. . Therefore, people who subscribe to CR Theory believe that keeping private hospitals is going to lead to more and more mistreatment and racism. So all hospitals should be government run, public, paid through tax money, and they should all get the same funding, and the same resources. When everything is dispersed equally, it helps to eliminate the disparities that come from racism. . I posted the 5 tenets of Critical Race Theory below. But before that though, as a former teacher, something I noticed about CRT in schools that bothered me is that the heroes of the Black and Indigenous communities are not included. . Throughout American history there have been thousands of Black American inventors, entrepreneurs, scholars, surgeons and much, much more. I believe American children should learn about both the terrible, awful racist history, as well as still learn about the heroic and brilliant Black Americans who changed the country and the world. . The reason they don't teach both is because with Critical Race Theory, the theory is that the country has racism ingrained in every aspect, and that has been devastating to Black Americans. If they teach that and then teach about the successful heroes, it's a mixed message. . Kids (depending on their grade) aren't experienced and developed enough to grasp how people could have reached such incredible success, and at the same time - the whole country and every institution is against them. That's one of the reasons many teachers believe that CRT should be for older students. Because it has very layered concepts that young children would find contradicting. . So schools that do teach with the CR Theory lense wind up having to not teaching about all the successful figures throughout American history. I personally think that's a big loss for the students. Because success is a HUGE part of Black American history too. . Here are five major tenets of CRT as defined by Delgado and Stefancic: 1. Racism is deeply ingrained legally, culturally and psychologically in our society and intersects with sex, class, national origin and sexual orientation to create systems of privilege that serve to exclude and isolate. . 2. “Color blindness,” the claim that people are capable of ignoring race or that race is no longer a factor within education and larger society, is an illusion that enables the perpetuation of those systems of privilege. . 3. Counter-storytelling allows people to challenge claims of a “postracial” society, preserve their own sense of self and worth, and educate others by sharing their own stories of marginalization. . 4. The US's civil rights victories enshrined equality in basic rights, but masked, or in some cases even exacerbated, the underlying social and institutional dynamics of racism. . 5. Social, educational and economic value is associated with being white, which provides white students with certain rights and rewards while reinforcing exclusionary practices that affect students of color.

[@msgreen3135]

Thank you Amy for this important part of American history.

[@MsJoyce31202]

👍

[@curiousworld7912]

I live in a town where, back in 1906, three Black men were lynched in our town square, due to a false assault complaint. Our town had had a thriving Black community, but they almost all left after that. I never saw a Black person, until I was grown. Many years later, I learned that one of my great Uncles was in charge of the local Klan in the 1920's and '30s. You can imagine just how 'proud' I am of that... God, almighty.

[@queenmommie100]

Thank you gentile for speaking the truth but now you're people must pay back God for what you're ancestors have done. Just as we have paid for our ancestors disobedience to God. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity. He who kills with a sword gun lynched shall be killed with a sword gun by TMH God ⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️. This is not my words this is God's word. He makes me speak his truth APTTMHGY 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾.

[@hughjassle5876]

@@queenmommie100 God does not hold us accountable for what our ancestors have done. Only for what we do. That is what God has said.

[@light279]

The white man's fear of the black man, the white man's insecurity shows us how very small the white man really is.

[@adamshortnacy3912]

no tell us.

[@victirynom]

@@hughjassle5876 you are guilty in other ways, what have you done to speak out about their atrocities. There are many of you who continue to be racist to this day. You could have kept that comment to yourself. Black people in America have suffered much much too long. So your silence makes you a part of your evil ancestors. You don't get a pass here.

[@mikeveis2395]

We need critical race theory. We need the truth

[@jenniferhampton5171]

Teaching our true history is important.

[@jerrylumpy5141]

Unadulterated history that demonstrates how systemic racism affects all institutions.

[@IshtarLinqu]

Nupuqi Om-Re Khonectics chamber degrees will guide you

[@cheri238]

A excruciating horror for all of us in our country that this could happen to our fellow brothers and sisters including our Native American peoples. Understanding our American History IS A BEGINNING with the great example of Howard Zinn's book, "The People's History of the United States," and many others. GREAT MEN AND WOMEN SERVED TO TRY TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE AND I AM GRATEFUL TO ALL OF THEM THAT HAD THE ENORMOUS CAPACITY TO DO THE RIGHT THING FOR THOSE WHO WERE MURDERED OR HUNG. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ALSO WAS A GREAT EXAMPLE. SO MANY EXCELLENT WRITERS WHO HAD THEIR STORIES TO BE HEARD , MANY DID NOT GET HEARD FOR YEARS BECAUSE OF THE WAY OUR HISTORY BOOKS IN OUR SCHOOLS WERE TAUGHT ONLY ONE SIDE. RACISM IS TAUGHT. I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL THAT I HAD THE KIND OF PARENTS WHO ALLOWED ME BY READING AND SEEKING THE TRUTH AS I ALSO SAW TERRIABLE THINGS AND INJUSTICE AS A CHILD LIVING IN THE SOUTH IN THE 60'S. I WAS TRAMATISED FOR MY AFRICAN AMERICAN FRIENDS. LOOK AT US NOW IN 2022. MAY WE ALL FIND A WAY TO HAVE A BETTER WORLD. IT WILL TAKE TREMENDOUS COURAGE TO WALK WITH NON-VIOLENCE WITH ACTIONS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THANK YOU ALWAYS TO AMY AND TEAM OF DEMOCRACY NOW. REVERENCE ❤️ ✨️

[@queenmommie100]

What have you done for my people?? Have you spoken up about what was done other than this time. Those who stay silent are apart of the egregious things that happened to the indigenous people here on our homeland you are just as guilty if you stay silent. This is God's word not mine. APTTMHGY ⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️you must give back and pay back God children for what has been done to IsRael JUDAH on God's lands. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity. He who kills with a sword gun shall be killed with a sword gun. This is God's word not mine I am just his vessel pouring out his truth APTTMHGY 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾.

[@Rhythmicons]

Howard Zinn was hugely problematic on the subject of the Philippine War.

[@adamshortnacy3912]

@@queenmommie100 Queen I'm starting to get the feeling that you don't particularly like white people.

[@jasminelove1984]

Black Americans are the Native to America Soil: Aboriginal descendant almost guarantee most Black Folk Elders owned they own land especially during the 1900’s Almost Guarantee it was due to their Ancestors owning they land, and so forth; You know before the whole Industrial Agriculture Productivity The so call Cotton Picking times.

[@fattyhatty1291]

@@adamshortnacy3912 why would we?

[@tlsvd5842]

America always lecturing the world about democracy and freedom what a double standard

[@debschroeder7637]

It seems everyday I learn more about black history. It makes me very sad that hard working people were and are treated so horribly. It makes me ashamed of being white!

[@cornerstoneboxingpromotion3120]

Oh, never be personally ashamed. Our country's redemption begins with being enlightened on our true history. You're in the right place.

[@deejay5102]

@@cornerstoneboxingpromotion3120 it begins with *REPARATIONS*

[@aicram62]

and then after the shame passes, what do you feel?

[@queenmommie100]

@@cornerstoneboxingpromotion3120 if you feel this way than give back everything that was stolen by your for father's. Return it all not with words but with deeds. You will pay for your for father's sin as we have for our ancestors disobedience against God. His words say that he who leads into captivity shall go into captivity. He who kills with a sword gun shall be killed with a sword gun. We paid for 1619-2019= 400+yrs. Now God is coming for you with a double recompense on your heads. This is his word not mine I am just his vessel being used to speak his truth APTTMHGY 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾.

[@paulheydarian1281]

@@aicram62 I dunno about Deb, but I like to contribute a six figure check to the local chapter of Proud Boys.😉👍

[@CEELOW3000]

I always feel an overcoming feeling of both rage and sorrow when I learn of these stories. People constantly being torn down/apart, beaten and murdered for just trying to simply "live"

[@charlenef7138]

WOW - damn, oh my gosh, more damming than the horror of the day & age IS that these TYPE injustices HAD AND HAVE NOT STOPPED. . . I say his NAME, my heart breaks and tears fall as MY HUMANITY connects to this PAIN. Bless you Amy for opening my EYES & unlocking parts of my consciousness.

[@fearlessGoddessAwakened]

This country should be in such fear for the judgment that is going to come upon them from The Most High. He has not forgotten what's been done to his people. Church does not teach what the Bible truly says about the day of wrath. It's for those that did and do wickedness. There are countless stories just like this one.

[@angelabucknor4981]

@Fatherless Daughter..... Little do they KNOW that truly A day of reckoning IS coming. There is going to be WEEPING and MOURNING and GNASHING of teeth. "Talking 'bout heaven, AIN'T going there" Yes A day of reckoning will happen.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Worldnewstime.]

Thats why this land built of slavery blood and pain will have no peace For all the evil they have done against african americans for more than 400 years in this country..God's wrath is going to be destructive and ruthless and then they'll wonder where all this suddenly came from? Then think like a sane person because nobody cant excape gods judgment he will find and judge you For everything you've done......

[@ree6553]

Exactly...it is for the wicked and they are in all races.

[@jawless7616]

So many of these massacres have happened on US soil if it's not the black people then it's the native Americans. We try so hard to sweep these under the rug

[@queenmommie100]

We are the indigenous natives and this is our Land. They white wash our history books. We are God's chosen people IsRael JUDAH here on our promise land. Know true history not his story 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@jasminelove1984]

The Native to America is the Black People you know before the race conversion and the Industrial Agriculture; We’re Aboriginal descendant. How is this still difficult: That Black Boy was the Native:

[@jasminelove1984]

Our Race was Converted to the Asian mixed with Chinese people those are the Modern day Natives.

[@joshmalone4246]

I never heard of any of this!! I'm in shock, wow just wow, thank you democracy now for this education, wow!

[@mattrobinson47]

There are many incredible books out there, if this story shocks you and you want to understand more about it. American history is amazing, and sometimes difficult to look at. But we have to look at it, and the clearer we see it, the stronger we are able to resist its recurrence. Go to your library, ask a librarian. They’d help…probably be the best moment of their day

[@jowhit226]

Tragically, many black towns and districts were destroyed between the late 1800's and early 1900's by racists. Most people have heard of what happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Rosewood. Many don't realize that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

[@freenchrist2935]

WOW, "Black Boy" written by Richard Wright was the BEST book, I ever read. (Other than the Bible.) I highly recommend any one reading this to read it.

[@jeanettejohnson7315]

Manchild In The Promised Land by Claude Brown is another excellent read.

[@freenchrist2935]

@@jeanettejohnson7315 THANKS!! I will order it!

[@freenchrist2935]

@@jeanettejohnson7315 My daughter is in a "Black Woman Who Read Books" club in Atlanta. I will let her know as well.

[@buttersleopaldstoch5793]

The History of the USA finally having some light put on it. This stuff is not taught in the USA and it leads to people in other countries throwing unjustified criticize at us

[@amehka5416]

they need to worry about the horrors in their own countries.

[@angelene990]

REPARATIONS NOW!

[@jasminelove1984]

So you want the oppressor to pay off the damages they’ve caused to our ancestors, and to this land by asking for something they were successfully able to make “Money” by tempering with the Earth Trees: They can take the money with them where the Sun don’t shine: much more preferred if they get off this land.

[@micksbiggestfan4006]

Another piece of Black history I would have otherwise missed. Gee, as a white male born in 1965, am I not ENTITLED to this information? 🙄

[@sinkpehnarossfire454]

🌎: "Songs and storytelling....🎶John Brown's body lies a`moulderin in the grave🎶.....and Ethan Hawk is part of a funLearning tv series called Good Lord Bird. Its a real strong faith oriented man John Brown who attacked the South because of slavery. It wasn't all the blacks, some whites ran and hid and lived too, among the Natives, the Red Nation people. And the soundtrack is amazing music and storytelling. True stories. The writers placed a young boy in the story, his dad was murdered, basically because of John Brown. In the midst of it all, John mistakes the boy for a girl and names her "Onion". And the story is accurate and hilarious. You'll see harsh, unfair death. That's the South and it still wants slavery.

[@TheArrangment]

Black history? What's that? Lool

[@TruthSeeker30_]

They know what they did was évil

[@levmoses742]

You were never supposed to know. None of us were. The game is to make folks looks like they created their own conditions and not look at current and generational trauma.

[@ellejaydotson5406]

As a white man and/or American period, you were taught that black people don’t have anything because we just didn’t work hard enough. That we didn’t utilize our bootstraps. This lie is still being perpetuated about our history and so much so that 1st and 2nd generation immigrants are talking trash to black people about how they were able to make it so there is no excuse for us. They talk without knowing the facts. Without knowing that some of the first white immigrants to this country were given hundreds of acres of FREE land and land grant colleges to teach them how to farm and they were left unmolested to do so. Without knowing had the same things happened to them that happened to us, they would be singing a different tone. In fact, had what happened to us happened to them, there would be no current 1st/2nd generations that immigrated because they would have stopped coming after the first massacre.

[@jeffreymassey5541]

REPARATIONS NOW 💰 FOR FBA'S

[@jasminelove1984]

The money was man made root to all evil specifically designed for the oppressor so they cut down our trees: Nothing of this land should of been tempered with: we’ll never get that “reparation”: the money will burn in the pits right along with the oppressor; we need them off the land. The Art of War will destroy the oppressor anyway.

[@antoinettetyus5596]

My grandfather died when I was 8yrs old he was about 67 or 68 when listening too these stories, I often wonder if this was the reason why my grandfather drank his liquor straight. His father an 2 uncles were lynched for something they didn’t do! To this very day I get tears in my eyes. I feel hurt and pain of all these stories. I guess to say I’m traumatized from the ordeal of all.

[@rebahenderson211]

Pay attention my people this is what they do to us. And, are planning to try again if you do not get a grip and understand we can not trust these people ever.

[@change5141]

Ever!!!

[@MaysDesign105]

Birmingham, Alabama is not the only town in Alabama that did hangings and unnecessary beatings, rape and down right killings, take a look at Cullman, Marion, Jemison all the little small towns where black people were slaughtered for nothing. Be about history, research!!

[@torreyinnewyorkcity334]

So powerful.thank you

[@capricornblack3450]

Reparations NOW! For Black Americans, Foundational black Americans who decended from the institution of chattel slavery! B1

[@yurei8]

Do black people deserve reparations? Yes. Will we get them? Very Unlikely. Genocide against blacks, is more likely, than reparations. I say that the answers lie in practicing universal laws that are more powerful in producing positive results, than racism, that has produced negative results. Consider something like, the laws of investment. If one has a good rate of return, and is safe, people will invest in that project, or venture. I think that I'm going to have to write a book, to go into more depth.

[@jasminelove1984]

Reparations? Why except their Man Made Money that they’ll never give to Black Folk: The Oppressor Tampered with the trees nothing of Nature should of been tampered with it’s an abomination: So that mean the money will burn in the pit right along with the oppressor through the art of war: it’s preferable that they leave the land.

[@truthersprotectingtruth490]

@@yurei8 Scripture is the only book we need at this point in time.

[@shawnwest4350]

this is exactly why everything is crumbling every where here and around the world.

[@gabrielmaroto18]

Destruction is the goal they build their fortunes they poison the earth and now they’re going to rewrite history again let’s all lay down and die together!

[@hughjassle5876]

No. It's crumbling because people have forgotten their heavenly Father.

[@shawnwest4350]

@@hughjassle5876 naw

[@hughjassle5876]

@@shawnwest4350 then what do you think it is?

[@shawnwest4350]

@@hughjassle5876 it's judgement this country never was a Christian nation

[@hassanal-mosawi4235]

Well said!

[@sagebay2803]

WOW! I had no idea. Thank you for talking about this.

[@galacticwarlock2271]

This is what the right is.

[@BeingSpecialNYCAdvocate]

I am one of the Great Granddaughters of Scipio A. Jones and we are very proud of his defense of these men. Thank you for covering this story.

[@TheeStrawberryLee]

My favorite writer. EVER. There’s just some stuff you can’t quite fabricate.

[@mikem820]

And of course any attempt to try to teach this in our schools will immediately incite a riot amongst all the ignorant racists that still infest this land and they’ll attack a poor female teacher …. They’re all so tough

[@regix1859]

Malcolm X said ...you can run the white man down the street with nuthin but the truth...ahhhh Mike speaking of truth and accuratecy... poor teachers are MALE and FEMALE dude

[@TheBlueThird]

I own both books by Richard Wright. Excellent literature.

[@4knewt505]

It's a must read for my sons. I have read them over and over again.

[@henryhondo8421]

One of the best I have read

[@bowerbird7463]

So much suffering, for those poor, innocent ppl. Unforgotten heroes, here now. It's our really sad history!

[@loishub1348]

Understand by Nature, we Black Ppl (💯% Human) are NOT poor 😐 We possess the *natural wealth* of this earth. That's why, every yt nation, feel the need to steal it & enslaved us humans. This is also, why yt men forced the 🌎 to accept "paper" as currency. To this day, Europe 🇺🇲 and all others, continue to steal our wealth & intellectual properties. Roman catholic priests hold our literature in the Vatican's basement. Still trying to learn our centuries of technology 😡

[@masonamaitiswritten5305]

My uncle was jailed and then taken out during the night and was lynched, beaten and thrown in the Bogalusa River. My father and his siblings has all died not knowing the extent the law brutally beaten their brother and where in the river they threw his body. This happened in Pearl River where Mack Charles Parker was brutally beaten and killed.

[@tamzyl1250]

Thank you for sharing your story, sorry for the pain your family have gone through even until this day. 🙏🏾

[@masonamaitiswritten5305]

@@tamzyl1250 matondo Masaka beloved for your sentiment.❤️

[@tamzyl1250]

@@masonamaitiswritten5305 you’re very welcome sir

[@masonamaitiswritten5305]

@@tamzyl1250 but I'm not a sir! I'm a queen! 😊

[@tamzyl1250]

@@masonamaitiswritten5305 I’m so sorry, I didn’t look at your picture. I stand corrected, thank you for sharing beautiful queen!! My apologises, all respect to you and yours ❤️

[@SuperTonyony]

Workers should OWN and CONTROL the means of production.

[@hughjassle5876]

Only if they have provided the capital for those means while assuming the financial, legal and civil liability for them.

[@levmoses742]

Absolutely! And it’s possible. There was a time when people thought we wouldn’t have an 8 hour workday, sick days, health insurance, and what? Vacations!! It’s possible when we put our minds to it.

[@hughjassle5876]

@@levmoses742 if workers really want to own and control the means of production, they need to buy and build the means. Otherwise they have no claim to it. And anyone who didn't sleep through history class knows what happens when the workers go the socialism route.

[@coreymasoy7034]

Great topic ❗ thanks for sharing this subject.

[@nicolewilliams9349]

Native son is an amazing and very sad book good read but very heart wrenching

[@jeanettejohnson7315]

Black Boy is amazing too.

[@dianegreen1937]

My Grandmother was born in 1896 in Little Rock, then moved to Memphis Tenn, then on to NYC! The stories she told me. Ugh.

[@greatblackness8828]

I Love that book Native Son. I read that book in high-school. The character Bigger shows how they constantly underestimate us Black people and to this day they don't realize who is really in control on this planet but soon comes the days of knowing. Knowledge is power.

[@robertmarley8852]

Native son fucked me up

[@robertmarley8852]

Invisible man

[@waynebanks5325]

Thanks Amy, love for your honesty and content of true reporting.

[@cerealeater7369]

Didn't even know about this. Horrible. This is exactly the type of history the right wing conservative wants to ban from anyone learning about.

[@TheVuduYuDu]

Exactly.

[@koffi3415]

The true nature of a very violent people and that violence is still prevalent to this day.

[@lungelompatho9903]

That is why statements like, "make America great again" ring hollow to some of us.

[@levmoses742]

Hello!!!

[@charlenef7138]

America was never GREAT - Not from the atrocity put upon the indigenous, Not from women's suffrage and lack of rights, Not from slavery or all injustices done to persons of color, America is still a youth when compared to other lands and nations. It is learning and growing from its mistakes and misjudgments, its growing and its coming into its own as a entity to be proud. So there is NO PLACE or POINT or PART IN HIS STORY to be "GREAT AGAIN" it can't stand strong without facing the wrong that was done or trying to make it right. "M.A.G." is a work in PROGRESS and it's NOT there YET so, it can never ever add up in any conclusion to be "M.A.G.A" to be great it has to mature and move forward NOT continuously roam in circles or go backwards.

[@seanalexander1984]

Thank you so much for this video. I am learning so much!

[@williedodson4949]

Thank you Dem Now for your work🙏🏾💯

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Trump: Want to see Biden in Prison Biden: What makes Trump believe I would visit him in Prison

[@MrAlexGolovin]

Lol that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard

[@zookeeper-wolfcatcher2298]

Funny😂😂😂😂😂but on point 👏👏👏

[@regix1859]

Bidens crime bill support sent plenty of blacks to prison before Trump was ever thought of and there is nothing funny about it... wake the fxck up

[@geraldjarvis2115]

1919 Red Summer, there's a reason why the government doesn't want to teach American history. I would be ashamed too.

[@haroldedwards8471]

And these people still don't want to give us reparation all this s*** we've been through

[@jeanettejohnson7315]

Exactly.These incidents happened way after slavery too.

[@sebolddaniel]

Never heard of Elaine, Arkansas. I like learning a little American history once in awhile

[@kurtgainz]

Thank you for not hiding behind the CRT lie. Great journalism!

[@TheZenGarden_]

Genesis 15 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Avram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 *And he said unto Avram, Know of a surety that thy seed (Deut.**28:15**-69) shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs (Deut.**28:36**), and shall serve them (Deut.**28:48**-50); and they shall afflict them 400 years.* 14 *And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.* ~ 2nd Exodus

[@millyuganda05]

Hallelujah and so shall it be! 🙌

[@jimbob3030]

The book that endorsed slavery, created by slavers, to justify slavery.

[@malkahbatyisrael8606]

HalleluYah, yea & amen. Shalom Yashar'El! 🦁❤🖤💚

[@TheZenGarden_]

@@jimbob3030 You're lack of Knowledge presides you!

[@TruthSeeker30_]

@@jimbob3030 they stole and copied the book. Left out parts to fit their narrative as well

[@bernicerogersbooker6333]

Thank you for sharing

[@KayDurrant]

I'm so glad I stopped and watched the whole thing so surprised never heard the story before

[@TheVuduYuDu]

Please continue to explore. There were so many other massacres and episodes of ethnic cleansing against blacks by whites that no one talks about its truly astounding.

[@Rhythmicons]

I went to the Centennial of the massacre at the Elaine Legacy Center in 2019. The highway department had some of the main roads to Elaine blocked-off and we had to drive through all of these pastures to get to another access road. I learned later that there were a couple of trucks full of white dudes that drove by slowly while we were in there. That part of the state (Mississippi Delta) is just like you would see it portrayed on film. There was a competing event in Helena that was trying to distract attention away from Elaine, run by some of the city's business leaders, but the place to be was Elaine.

[@adamshortnacy3912]

Helena is mostly black folks. I know all about the delta I live here I also know what happened at Elaine was a race war black people started the killing. It was a fight not a race massacre if the blacks could have killed every white there they would have.

[@swannoir7949]

So that same attitude is alive and well in those parts even in 2022. You couldn't pay me to live in the south.

[@Rhythmicons]

@@swannoir7949 It's as American as Apple Pie.

[@swannoir7949]

@@Rhythmicons I love apple pie; but I can't say the same about this country at the moment.

[@Rhythmicons]

@@swannoir7949 What we are witnessing is a conservative counterrevolution. When they said "The South will rise again" this is what it looks like. I want to leave the south asap. Be safe!

[@cornerstoneboxingpromotion3120]

Whoa. And this is DURING WW1, sending soldiers to Arkansas?! Incredible, united states.

[@alistairmackintosh9412]

Just after WW1.

[@charlenef7138]

This U.S.A. republic has been & is brutal, misleading, unfair, inequal, unjust and just awful to melanonid Americans BUT WE ARE STILL STANDING, STILL PEACE WANTING, STILL THRIVING, STILL VIBING, STILL PROUD, STILL HUMAN. Each little historical cover-up every little lie, all their creative narratives to sway favor are why the trauma.... to black persons, of black persons and on black persons takes so so long to GET OVER and too to long to heal. For anyone that may be skeptic and want to say this part of American history didn't happen like they want to claim the holocaust was just a phase or a figment of imagination. For the nay sayers when history like this finally comes out.... If George Floyd was and DID get killed in broad day light in the 2000's witnessed by many as their known reality, then tell me how these (hidden, shaded, or obscured pieces of American history can't be true.

[@andreabrown4541]

Y'all think this was bad! Wait until you hear about Wrightsville, AR.

[@mitchellkrouth5083]

Thank you correct we have to fight back for every breath we take. This is the facts of life that we need to understand to appreciate every minute that we have on this planet.

[@eva6279]

So you can see why America must drink the cup of GOD'S judgment , it has already begun she can't escape weather you believe it or not , many blood has been shed ,and still is being shed .

[@freethinkinmelanin6795]

Yes it has and I love it!

[@panchog2552]

It's amazing that my ancestors tried to do the law abiding thing and are murdered and robbed.Goes to show, that the law wasn't for us,but for them.

[@rexmontana407]

makes your blood boil knowing what we’re owed & knowing they dont want to teach this history to our kids keeping them uneducated & likely to repeat said history

[@willhanserd8590]

Very informative

[@taunyaquick9320]

This hardship deeply every time I watch the many injustice to my people. While the wicked say pick yourselves up by your boot strips when everything was given to them that they didn’t steal.

[@lloydrobinson6480]

REPARATION NOW!!!!

[@calvinaddison2316]

we are due reparation but its my understanding the senate has to approve it if we don't vote blacks in will never get it

[@calvinaddison2316]

@Brandon it's not all about money not all blacks want money that's the perception about us ive never been on welfare no one on my family has raised 5 kids all college graduates its about rites programs to make things equal other races have been taken care of why not blacks again not every black is own welfare news people make it seems that way

[@millyuganda05]

@Brandon troll

[@BrianMcGuirkBMG]

@Brandon TROLL ALERT.

[@lf1496]

@Brandon Said the Fentanyl addict

[@MrEdium]

SILENCE CAN BE DEAFENING😢

[@nenmaster5218]

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[@Priestbokmei1]

Why is this latino talking about Black peoples history?? There was no Black professor who could discuss this? What does he know about Black trauma?? He’s not prepared to discuss something so profound as the Elaine Massacre and Black trauma. He’s not qualified; his people have not remotely experienced this level of destruction in America! It’s just insulting. Should stay out Black spaces. He should just mind his business and go to his own community and discuss with them about their anti-Black racism.

[@moniqueloomis9772]

You're ignorant and it's a shame. You need to research Pedro Albizu Campos.

[@meyou3772]

Its part of the POC agenda

[@thosethatcan]

GOOD POST TY

[@change5141]

It is amazing the pure evil that existed and still exist in this country!

[@jacquelinejames1444]

I was told our ancestors had to make a life for themselves those people didn't want them to prosper this was beyond sinful.

[@deborahcooper7545]

For those who don't know this why you're hearing the acronym,,,CRT

[@patrellabell1575]

America got to pay

[@johnhughes979]

Critical race theory demonstrates how the social construct of racism foments self-hatred to the extent any shard of light over darkness must be extinguished so despair can devour hope.

[@pricewright8572]

Pass through Arkansas married a woman from Arkansas but never heard of anything like this I am astonished my words I don't have for the black people from Arkansas at that time I need to look and read the books of the rights oh my God

[@coachp1389]

We need reparations.

[@mamajudah7269]

I'm not going to keep re-living these sad savage tragedies, with people of today is still going around in circles about

[@darnellhurst2303]

Because we were already here This is just another land affected by global genocide!!!

[@dwightlove3704]

Where's the video of this story

[@ahmadmcdaniel2257]

Thanks

[@childofGodsKingdom]

No one with an evil heart wants to hear or be reminded of this extreme evil past. Commentors are even going as far as to try and lessen this evil deed by saying the Africans sold their people. The Indians had slaves! This demonic spirit will always be here, to dwell in the hearts of men, as long as people like these want to and need to feel superior.

[@55sharonda]

Thanks for sharing this after a century of silence Land Stolem

[@yusufabdallah4614]

The black experience of USA holds the entire world captive.. Africa is in great dispair still captive of the western military complex that still rules the world .black silence is real

[@stixnpoles2564]

His mother's fear and slap still has folks froze up till this day.

[@Rhythmicons]

You really should have contacted Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch at Arkansas State University to talk about the Elaine Race Massacre.

[@yerushalom87]

Where is the monitary reparations?

[@kylechiverton1058]

Soooo much SICKENING and UNHUMANE reality of OUR past. Shameful

[@kimberlycanales916]

I went to school in the Phillips County public school system, and I was taught about this massacre.

[@jeremyhall2727]

I never knew, I'm sorry it happened