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originally posted by: HONROC
a reply to: Breakthestreak
face2faceafrica.com...
"Top 5 African countries where slavery is still rampant"
Not a peep about this, but "white people are eeevil"
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: shooterbrody
Reread the post I replied to. He said we were the first nation to abolish slavery. Last time I checked we were the nation of the United States of America. Not Pennsylvania.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
a reply to: AntiDoppleganger
Once again, it still means that America was not the 1st Western nation to abolish slavery as the other person claimed. I don't get why you people are trying to begin over backwards to prove this point that is demonstrably false.
originally posted by: xuenchen
BUT? 1619 !!!! 😃
BEFOR E THERE WERE “RED” AND “BLUE” STATES, THERE WERE “FREE” STATES AND “SLAVE” STATES
😃
originally posted by: americanbuffalo1
a reply to: xuenchen
All I can say is I can't for the life of me understand or comprehend what happened 100 years ago. Its sorrowful and a huge stain on our history. White folks acting like friggin' animals!
The massacre began during the Memorial Day weekend after 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a Black shoeshiner, was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, the 17-year-old White elevator operator of the nearby Drexel Building. He was taken into custody. After the arrest, rumors spread through the city that Rowland was to be lynched. Upon hearing reports that a mob of hundreds of White men had gathered around the jail where Rowland was being kept, a group of 75 Black men, some of whom were armed, arrived at the jail in order to ensure that Rowland would not be lynched. The sheriff persuaded the group to leave the jail, assuring them that he had the situation under control. A shot was fired, and then, according to the reports of the sheriff, "all hell broke loose." At the end of the exchange of fire, 12 people were dead, 10 White and 2 Black. As news of these deaths spread throughout the city, mob violence exploded. White rioters rampaged through the Black neighborhood that night and the next morning, killing men and burning and looting stores and homes. Around noon on June 1, the Oklahoma National Guard imposed martial law, ending the massacre.