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I suspect Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis, two men trying to dethrone Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s standard bearer, don’t want a rerun of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre, when a mob of white supremacists violently overthrew a democratically-elected government. But boy are they OK evoking that legacy if it might help them secure the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination.
That mob of white supremacists murdered at least 60 people in that coastal North Carolina city for the sin of having a thriving African-American community, integrated government, and an outspoken black journalist, Alex Manly, who dared write that lynching was wrong. Long before Jan. 6, 2021, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building trying to overturn the results of an election they didn’t like, Confederacy-longing white supremacists had pulled off the only coup d’état in U.S. history.
Pence and DeSantis didn’t come to North Carolina to celebrate 1898. But in an effort to win votes, they harkened back to one of the country’s darkest eras, when a group of white supremacists took up arms against the U.S. in an effort to establish a new country built on the idea that black people forever be enslaved by white people – the idea that motivated white supremacists in Wilmington in 1898.
Pence and DeSantis each came to North Carolina and said they would re-honor Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, a man who enslaved at least 110 black people. They would turn Fort Liberty back into Fort Bragg, the name one of the most important military installations in the country had since President Woodrow Wilson decided to honor dishonorable men like Bragg.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/desantis-pence-pander-worst-white-110913245.html
That mob of white supremacists murdered at least 60 people in that coastal North Carolina city for the sin of having a thriving African-American community, integrated government, and an outspoken black journalist, Alex Manly, who dared write that lynching was wrong. Long before Jan. 6, 2021, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building trying to overturn the results of an election they didn’t like, Confederacy-longing white supremacists had pulled off the only coup d’état in U.S. history.
Pence and DeSantis didn’t come to North Carolina to celebrate 1898. But in an effort to win votes, they harkened back to one of the country’s darkest eras, when a group of white supremacists took up arms against the U.S. in an effort to establish a new country built on the idea that black people forever be enslaved by white people – the idea that motivated white supremacists in Wilmington in 1898.
Pence and DeSantis each came to North Carolina and said they would re-honor Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, a man who enslaved at least 110 black people. They would turn Fort Liberty back into Fort Bragg, the name one of the most important military installations in the country had since President Woodrow Wilson decided to honor dishonorable men like Bragg.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/desantis-pence-pander-worst-white-110913245.html