Las Vegas is only the deadliest shooting in US history because they don’t count Black lives
Why would you say that? And why would @lagonegirl widen the audience this reaches? Shame on you both
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_race_riot
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/11/19/8-of-the-deadliest-race-riots-in-u-s-history/
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/11/19/8-of-the-deadliest-race-riots-in-u-s-history/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Pillow
I didn’t even realize this…
Of course not. Most don’t. That’s by design. Not of the individuals who are kept ignorant of these facts, but of the genocidally racist culture upheld by the US government and especially the individual states.
If history isn’t your specific realm of study I don’t think you (and I’m using the general “you” here) should beat yourself up over not knowing about these atrocities, because how could you? How were you to know that they were there to look up at all?
But now that you know, honour the dead: spend just a little time reading about what’s gone on in this country beyond the glorified and whitewashed bullet points fed to us by the school system.
And if it makes you mad—which, gods, it should—direct your ire where it belongs: institutionalised racism, white supremacy, US education, and our state & federal governments.
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