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@JYSexton 1/ They haven't even been waiting. They have tried it before when the opportunity presented itself. In 60s. Repeatedly. Not picking a fight because we are on the same team. But this is not new.
@JYSexton 2/ Tommy Tarrants, 1-time chief terrorist for the Missisisppi White Knights: "Our hope and dream was that a race war would come." "Part of the strategy was to create fear in the black community- but it was more important to produce racial polarization and eventual retaliation."
@JYSexton 3/ FBI top informant Delmar Dennis, describing Grand Wizard Sam Bowers private motivations. "Bowers outlined on a blackboard the overall strategy of which the White Knights were merely a part. He said he was trying to create a race war, and open violence...
@JYSexton 4/ on the part of white Mississippians against native Negro citizens and civil rights agitators…The excuse for the control would be the race war he was helping to create by engendering hatred among whites in the same manner as it was being fomented ... among blacks."
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