Thread by @michaelharriot

This is historically inaccurate.

A thread about all the times when rioting and violence worked

https://twitter.com/DrShayPhD/status/1266208688735424512

Now, unlike most of the other threads, I’m gonna do this in real time and strictly from memory so forgive me if I leave something out

On December 16, 1773, members of a secret organization dressed as native Americans, snuck onto ships & dumped 342 chests of tea into the sea

This was a protest.
They were looters
We call it the Boston Harbor

It was one of the first acts of rebellion that led to the American revolution.

You’re telling me that it didn’t work?

In 1855 and 1856 in the Kansas/Missouri territory, pro-slavery advocates essentially started a war to make Kansas a slave state. There was a year-long war between "free-soilers" and white supremacists who wanted slavery.

Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery congressman, nearly beat a free-soil Senator, Charles Sumner to death ON THE SENATE FOOR

free-soilers weren't having that shit. They formed armies and took it to the white supremacists

It worked.

Kansas was admitted as a free state

History, nigga

What was the civil war if not a protest by white supremacist traitors who decided they'd rather be Americans than go without slaves.

They got their asses handed to them in the bloodiest war in American history.

But that ain't what I'm talking about.

After the Uncivil War, white people started a whole motherfucking terrorist network called the Ku Klux Klan. They terrorized black people across the country. There was and there never will be an equivalent terror group more deadly than angry white people

But it worked.

When the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment passed, black people OUTVOTED whites. In states like Louisiana and Ga, 90 percent of black eligible voters cast votes.

Then white people started killing black people.

Racists killed more black people during reconstruction than Nazis killed black soldiers during WW2

And what happened?

The rioting and terror worked. The Compromise of 1877 was a direct result of white terror campaigns and stealing votes from black people.

What did it do?

15 white men essentially went into a room and chose the president in exchange for the South being allowed to enact Jim Crow laws.

Rioting and violence works for white people

That's how we got another 100 years of legalize racial subjugation.

But wait, that's not all.

After WW1, black soldiers came back to the US with a new attitude. They called themselves the "new negro" and expressed their feelings like they should have equal rights. So what did white people do?

They started killing black people (I'm kinda tired of typing that sentence)

The Red Summer of 1919 was typified by what they called "race riots" but they were actually a series of coordinated violent attacks that were just like the reconstruction "riots"

There was just one difference:

Black people fought back.

The Chicago race riot is what led to the desegregation of that city. The Housing board passed laws that limited where black people could live.

To make up for the municipal ethnic cleansing, they created homes for displaced blacks.

We call them "housing projects" now.

This happened in cities across America, including Baltimore, St. Louis and most major east coast cities.

And this was cemented when the Federal Housing Authority created maps to outline where banks could lend money to white people to build houses.

These guaranteed loans is what built the middle class.

So, Redlining was created BECAUSE of rioting and violence, which gave white people their economic base from the tax money and labor of black people.

See?

That violent shit worked.

Oh, and all that "westward expansion" shit that we call "manifest destiny?"

That was because wypipo pillaged Native American lands.

Then they put them on "reservations"

Then they stole the "reservations,"

It looked just like what's going on in Minneapolis now

And despite what you have been led to believe, nonviolent protests DID NOT give black people civil rights.

Y'all think black people woke up one day in 1955 and said "You know what? I think I'm ready for equality now."

That's not how it worked.

That's not how ANYTHING works

We ALWAYS wanted those rights. We had ALWAYS protested for those rights. Those protests were NEVER peaceful.

It was just white people inflicting the violence.

What changed?

Cameras and television is what changed.

The rarely talked about part of the Civil Rights movement is the part that TV and access to technology played

The same white folks running America in 1945 were in charge in 1965, it was just no longer possible for them to justify their brutality while talking about equality

They were still bombing churches and shooting black people, it was just broadcast to the world during a time when we were talking about communism and human rights around the world.

A mirror is the most powerful painting you can imagine

People could see how evil this country was

The American education system would really have us believe that MLK told white people his dream and white people said:

"You know what? I never thought about it like that?

Hell no! Those real-time images of brutality and violence were as powerful as any speech or sit-in.

There has NEVER been a successful protest movement in modern history that succeeded without violence.

Not Christianity. Not democracy. Not civil rights.

The choice is, which side is going to do the donate their blood?

We're damn near out of blood to give.

So, if you want to change the system, history has repeatedly told us how to do it.

Burn.
That.
Shit.
Down.

And amen, motherfuckers.