Local law enforcement in Alamance County, NC pepper-sprayed a permitted Souls to the Polls rally on the last day of Early Voting today. The particular site where this happened has a long history... newsobserver.com/news/local/art…
During Reconstruction, local white supremacists were incensed that Gov Holden appointed Wyatt Outlaw as head of local law enforcement. A mob formed & lynched Outlaw in 1870.
The ensuing Kirk-Holden War, in which Holden sent in troops to put down the rebellion, was an early battle in the white supremacist movement’s attempt to overthrow the results of the Civil War.
But Alamance Co, even then, was a place where Red Strings had resisted the Confederacy & Black & white worked together for a genuine democracy. The mob formed not b/c democracy was weak, but b/c it was strong.
We can’t be intimidated by violence. We must maintain discipline & vote like never before. White supremacy wouldn’t be this brazen if it didn’t know it was losing.
As the movement in South Africa often said, “A dying mule always kicks the hardest.”
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