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@eddsmitty
Apr 18 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵On August 13, 1911, a White lynch mob dragged Zachariah Walker from a hospital in Coatesville, PA, after being accused of killing a White security guard and former policeman, Edgar Rice. His lynching was disturbing as not only(con't)
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he was thrown into a fire; the mob beat him with rails from a broken fence as he tried to escape twice. Also disturbing is that the mob collected pieces of his charred remains as souvenirs. The next day, townspeople posed for a photo where the lynching occured.

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More on the lynching of Zachariah Walker here.

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Apr 17
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 August 7, 1930- A White mob of thousands broke into a Marion, Indiana jail where three Black teenagers were being held.
Thomas Shipp, Abram Smith, & James Cameron were badly beaten. Shipp & Smith were hung from a tree. Smith's arms were broken when (con't) Image
he attempted to free himself. Police officers in the crowd cooperated in the lynching. James Cameron, the youngest of the three at 16 years old, managed to survive his attempted lynching. No one in the mob was held accountable.

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More on the Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith here:
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Feb 5, 2022
The midterm election is forthcoming and will be here sooner than we think. As you know, the GOP has engaged in a voter suppression campaign across many states. This is why now is the time to recognize the tactics they employ so you can take action to make sure you are (con't)⬇️
The article above was just an overview of how things once were during the Jim Crow era.

Fast forward to today. Welcome to Jim Crow 2.0. Voter suppression tactics have never went away. They evolved. Please refer to the following article: reclaimdemocracy.org/voter-suppress…

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Please read and share the above information with all of your friends and family. The voter suppression tactics may affect you & and many people you know. I was motivated to write this thread because I learned something disturbing from @GangstaMimi the other day. (con't)⬇️
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Jun 29, 2021
I want to say before we begin this discussion thread, anyone targeting ppl because of their ethnic background is unacceptable...first and foremost, ok? I acknoledge that we live in a society that hate for fellow human beings is something (next)

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that we should have got over years ago. Apparently, we haven't, fam. What I want to say here is that we should be cognizant of these crimes where the victims were assaulted or murdered because of their ethnic background. What I'm also saying is that these hate crimes (next)
should not be weaponized to put the human race against on another; be it personally, politacally, or whatever. This has got to stop. While I have posted tweets as to misconduct of police officers, I do that for enlightenment; not to put people against one another (next)
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