Ok. Given today, I'll share another saved "anomaly" from my notes taken during "lockdown" reading.
The event that sparked the Boston massacre (and the American Revolution) was that British soldiers did a "police brutality" fatality supercombo on a colonist right?
Well that "colonist" was a BLACK sailor by the name of Crispus Attucks.
So let's use our imagination to role-play this one:
We are to believe that a bar-brawl, riot, then massacre broke out because a buncha "racists" came to the defense of a Black man against the British? 🤔
Then I kept reading and apparently the story changed. He wasn't a "black sailor" he was actually a slave..ok, so the racists were mad that the British killed their property....then I kept reading. And found NO MENTION of him being a slave in the next morning's paper.
Also, if he WAS a slave, why was he buried at Granary Burying Ground w Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere et al?
Was it before America had invented segregated graveyards?
I thought it only got MORE racist the further back in time you went?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granary_B…
*shrug*
Just another anomaly I guess.
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