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As we reflect on what the Trump campaign and his supporters are doing to suppress our voices and our votes throughout our great nation, lets take a moment to remember the kind of hatred and violence that Blacks in Ocoee, Florida experienced on Nov 2, 100 years ago: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...htmlstory.html
Get out there and VOTE. Vote in honor of those who were lynched, vote in honor of those who were driven from their homes, 100 years ago in a little place called Ocoee.
Orange County, as well as the rest of Florida, had been "politically dominated by Southern white Democrats" since the end of Reconstruction.[5] But, in the weeks leading up to the presidential election of 1920, African Americans throughout the South were registering to vote in record numbers....Judge John Moses Cheney, a Republican running for the United States Senate from Florida, had started a voter registration campaign to register African Americans to vote in Florida, because they had supported the Republican Party since Reconstruction.....the Ku Klux Klan "marched in full regalia through the streets of Jacksonville, Daytona and Orlando" to intimidate opponents.[7] The organization threatened Judge Cheney prior to the election.
As we reflect on what the Trump campaign and his supporters are doing to suppress our voices and our votes throughout our great nation, lets take a moment to remember the kind of hatred and violence that Blacks in Ocoee, Florida experienced on Nov 2, 100 years ago: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...htmlstory.html
Get out there and VOTE. Vote in honor of those who were lynched, vote in honor of those who were driven from their homes, 100 years ago in a little place called Ocoee.
Thanks for sharing that tragedy. I hadn't heard of it, and this is the kind of thing that DOES need to be remembered -- so that, hopefully, something like this will never be repeated.
Sorry, I am obviously missing your point. Are you saying it didn't happen? Or were you referring to parfleche's post saying that it was about former slave holders still holding a grudge?
OOPS -- I just reread it and it said that it was specifically the Ku Klux Klan that caused the trouble and not Democrats as a whole. Or am I still misunderstanding your point?
Orange County, as well as the rest of Florida, had been "politically dominated by Southern white Democrats" since the end of Reconstruction.[5] But, in the weeks leading up to the presidential election of 1920, African Americans throughout the South were registering to vote in record numbers....Judge John Moses Cheney, a Republican running for the United States Senate from Florida, had started a voter registration campaign to register African Americans to vote in Florida, because they had supported the Republican Party since Reconstruction.....the Ku Klux Klan "marched in full regalia through the streets of Jacksonville, Daytona and Orlando" to intimidate opponents.[7] The organization threatened Judge Cheney prior to the election.
There you go again, ruining a perfectly good Democrat lie by introducing facts and truth.
Thanks for sharing that tragedy. I hadn't heard of it, and this is the kind of thing that DOES need to be remembered -- so that, hopefully, something like this will never be repeated.
Agreed. This type of tragedy should not happen again in modern history, ever. This is not a partisan issue, it is an American issue. Right now, there are people trying hard to invalidate our votes. We need to remember history and fight back with all our might.
Agreed. This type of tragedy should not happen again in modern history, ever. This is not a partisan issue, it is an American issue. Right now, there are people trying hard to invalidate our votes. We need to remember history and fight back with all our might.
So, how many emergency ballots do have in your living room closet "just in case"?
The subverted demoralized zombies are perpetually at war with the past.
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send it through the mail
early voting
vote on the day
who stopped who from doing this? i will vote tomorrow. should i expect some thugs to physically stop me from entering the polling building? is this what is happening Now?
dredging up a 100 yr old massacre to equate or fear monger people today of what we may become!!
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