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Donna Ladd said what she said.😘 Profile picture
@DonnerKay
Sep 15 • 20 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
1. 🧵📢Amid Trump-Vance false claims of Haitians eating pets, and just in time for #DemocracyDay, my new essay connects historic dots to show similar racist attacks on immigrants in U.S. history as targeted groups shifts.

I started with the Chinese.

mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
2. Despite the Chinese building Transcontinental Railroad in backbreaking work, white Americans called them every kind of name before demanding passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 to block them from the U.S.—until 1943—like “rat-eaters." mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
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3. Among earliest immigrants U.S. whites targeted were Irish + German Catholics. Trump himself descends from a German grandpa who fled to escape draft. His heritage is Scottish and German, but DT claimed to be Swedish (as in superior Nordic) in his books.
mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
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4. BTW, Trump didn’t make up “America First” or “Make America Great Again.” Both 1920s KKK and racists (Nazi apologists until they, um, weren’t) Henry Ford + Charles Lindbergh used “America First,” and dog whistler Reagan used “Make America Great Again. mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
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5. Did you know neo-Confederates have held onto anger over (Black) Haitians beating and killing their French colonizers in 1804 for 200+ years? Seriously. This was a rallying "remember San Domingo! cry for secession, and Stephen D. Lee shared the fear.
mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
6. I bring in (Great) Replacement Theory that Tucker Carlson, J.D. Vance, Loomer et al push. It keeps being remade to scare whites into thinking the enemy is "bringing in” migrants to replace the good white kids of immigrants who should be in charge.
mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
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7. I throw in the Know Nothing Party, a nativist political party in 1800s that is similar to the Magas of today. White “Native Americans” (see the piece) used racist slurs to get legislation passed to bar immigrants they didn’t want (see small print). mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
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8. I include some of the horrible epithets used to bash various migrant groups, which also reflected the growing eugenic inferiority beliefs of the time. I apologize for putting these in print to show parallels with today. But history teaches. mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
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9. Immigration Act of 1917 (Asiatic Barred Zone Act) targeted Muslims, Asians, others from “the Orient" including South Asia. Epithets for people from India included “dothead,” “cow piss drinker” and “cow worshippers," “Dusky Asiatics” and “Hindu hordes.” mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
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10. Not the only other anti-migrant law (there were many amid national eugenic fervor among white conservatives and progressives alike), but the Immigration Act of 1924 quotes were the coup de grace. As I write in the essay:
mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
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11. Also: Expansion of “whiteness”—grouping whites by skin tone rather than ethnicity and over time growing by allowing targeted groups in—is not same as being white. We can recognize how we’ve been used in these whiteness power games and reject them.
mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
12. I quote @drmoore saying Trump and Vance’s lies and attacks on Haitians in Ohio is “satanic.” And I may or may not have predicted that such people are going to hell. That’s my personal opinion, of course, but if there's a hell, well.
mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-f…
13. If this essay shared buried facts you didn’t know I’d love to hear them; this helps my research and focus. And please share this piece, as well as read my first Democracy essay below with more coming soon.
mississippifreepress.org/opinion-no-tim…
14. Finally, today is #DemocracyDay, and like other newsrooms under fire for truth-telling, we're raising funds to ensure we will continue to grow and reach our readers in every state. Right now your donations are matched. Please give on #USDemocracyDay:

givebutter.com/mfpdonate
BTW, I have no idea who is in the picture above. It's not in that story, I don't think. Anyway.
15. 🚨🚨🚨 With Vance now inducating that Haitians are increasing disease in his state, it’s a good time to heed this @HolocaustMuseum warning from history and understand what you’re hearing: Image
@HolocaustMuseum 16. Also, this info about Springfield’s county doesn’t support Vance’s disease claims:
*quotas, not quotes
@HolocaustMuseum 17. Ore evidence that Vance is still lying about Haitians on Ohio:
@HolocaustMuseum *More, not ore

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Donna Ladd said what she said.😘 Profile picture
May 27
It's cute to watch the NO THE PARTIES DIDN'T SWITCH crowd try to reconstruct arguments on the fly when presented with evidence that it is established historic fact that white Dems fled to the new Republican Party bc national Dems embraced civil rights—and took racism with them.
Whole GOP strategy to save itself was appeal to the old Dixiecrats and their ilk. It's why politics are so broken + putrid today. All the bullshit grasping at the past to maintain and consolidate power as white America moves rapidly toward becoming the minority. Whiteness, man.
Now, mind you, Dixiecrats did not take all the bigotry (and sexism) with them to the GOP. We all know this, or should.
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Mar 10
1. I'm inspired by @NicLott, @jarvisdortch, others to share @msfreepress and other clips involving L.Q.C. Lamar. First, learn about the Mississippi Plan (remember LQC Lamar and most white southerners were Democrats then, well before party switch): nps.gov/vick/learn/his…
2. L.Q.C. Lamar (who much of Oxford, Miss. is named for) was a slaver and rapid white supremacist (and opportunist) as we show here: this along means he deserves no statue anywhere: mississippifreepress.org/4351/the-past-…
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3. L.Q.C. Lamar was a fire-eater racist who WROTE Mississippi's Articles of Secession. He was an Emory grad, and they've had a reckoning over him: news.emory.edu/stories/2022/0…
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Jan 3
In research today, I ran across this program for Jackson convention for Mississippi's "Patriotic American Youth," where segregationists and red-baiters worked hard to create the next generation of, well, you know.

But I'm sharing it now because the "Coke breaks" tickled me. Image
The group, by the way, was started by Mrs. Sara McCorkle, the highest ranking woman Citizens Council leader in Mississippi, as far as I can tell. She was in charge of youth propaganda.
It's also funny that these genuises misspelled "patriotic" on the flyer for the convention the year before in downtown Jackson. Oh and read about the man giving the first night's address here (yikes): . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S.…
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Mar 8, 2023
1. Just clipped this for y'all for a quick Mississippi segregation academy lesson from early 1970s. There were racist segs (whites-only) and there were Citizens Council school run by Bill Simmons & his goons. Here: Hanging Moss, Manhattan, McCluer, Adams Cty Private were Council
2. Union Acad, Brandon Acad, Amite Acad, Copiah, Indianola Acad, Simpson Acad, Bayou Acad, Greenville Christian (I think), Pillow Acad, Jackson Prep were whites-only academies. Many more.
Council schools more overtly taught that Black people were born inferior; thus couldn't mix
3. Also several private schools today started as *Council* schools. That includes HIllcrest Christian Acad in South Jackson (started as Council McCluer where Phil Bryant went), Central Hinds Academy and one of the Rankin County academies.
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Sep 14, 2022
All, please don’t be shocked that Mississippi has *always* been run as a state to provide spoils to wealthy white men with media’s complicity, either directly or by focusing on trivia and horse races. It is systemic corruption built and maintained to multiply, feed itself forward
Fixing this racist, misogynistic power system is going to take far more than convicting Klansmen from 60 years ago or exposing politicians recently out of office.

It will take a full interrogation of the systems that allow corruption to continuing propagating—and media’s role.
Public must demand that media interrogate every system including how info flows or doesn’t. Since Barbour, those who control state govt squelch free press daily, from freezing out “unfriendly” journalists to demanding written questions to only giving statements. They demonize.
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Sep 14, 2022
It’s as good a day as any for all Mississippi journalism outlets to start questioning how much corruption and incompetence exists here in state government including among officials still in office.

Start being proactive rather than reactive. No sacred cows. It’s the job,
Caution, though: Careful journslism process is important in this arena to avoid being set up or used, or paying price when your target isn’t indicted or is acquitted. This is training everyone needs.
Advice: Don’t characterize in reporting or on social media. Show, don’t tell.
If you’re using leaked info from unnamed sources, be careful about veracity and motives. You or preferably editor must explain everything possible about those sources and WHY not disclosing them. Don’t be blinded by juicy docs; question the long game at hand.
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