Thread by @s7ephen

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?

https://twitter.com/s7ephen/status/1661062957889994756

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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