G.O.A.T. Tournament Round 2: Yelp Reviews for Racists
Our quest to find the Greatest Oppressor of All Time continues with the organizations and companies competing for the racism championship.
Welcome back to the march toward white madness!
If you missed the first round of our single-elimination tournament, don’t worry! There’s still time to help us find the Greatest Oppressor of All Time.
After receiving cease-and-desist letters from a certain college athletic association, we must inform you that the National Championship for Anti-Black Assholes (NCAA) is not affiliated with that basketball thing that is going on right now. Apparently, some white people supposedly are doing a less interesting version of this competition, but with white amateurs playing basketball (I never heard of it, but it sounds boring AF). And, unlike those cultural appropriators from the other NCAA, we let the audience choose the winners.
Since today’s division features organizations and companies that have reached the top of Mount Racism, we decided to let you read some of the Yelp reviews these institutions have received in the past.
No seriously.
These are ACTUAL EXCERPTS from journalists, historians and victims of these racist institutions. Aside from the star ratings, we haven’t embellished them in any way. It’s just up to you to choose which one.
Remember, you have three days to vote on each matchup, and the winner will move on to the next round. At the end of the competition, we will crown the G.O.A.T. of white supremacy (You can see the whole bracket with updated scores here.)
As usual, voting is only open to paid subscribers to ContrabandCamp.
Here are the matchups in the Organizations and Companies division.
Ku Klux Klan
Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, U.S. Congress
The testimony shows that over 2,000 persons were killed, wounded, and otherwise injured in that State within a few weeks prior to the presidential election; that half the State was overrun by violence; midnight raids, secret murders, and open riot kept the people in constant terror until the republicans surrendered all claims, and then the election was carried by the democrats…
In Caddo, there were 2,987 republicans. In the spring of 1868, they carried the parish. In the fall they gave Grant one vote. Here also there were bloody riots. But the most remarkable case is that of St.Landry, a planting parish on the river Teche. Here, the republicans had a registered majority of 1,071 votes. In the spring of 1868, they carried the parish by 678. In the fall, they gave Grant no vote, not one…
Here occurred one of the bloodiest riots on record, in which the Ku-Klux killed and wounded over two hundred republicans, hunting and chasing them for two days and nights through fields and swamps. Thirteen captives were taken from the jail and shot. A pile of twenty-five dead bodies was found half buried in the woods.
Having conquered the republicans, killed and driven off the white leaders, the Ku-Klux captured the masses, marked them with badges of red flannel, enrolled them in clubs, led them to the polls, made them vote the democratic ticket, and then gave them certificates of the fact.
⭐★★★★
“Justice Black Revealed as Ku Klux Klansman,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Hugo Lafayette Black, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, is a member of the hooded brotherhood that for ten long blood-drenched years ruled the Southland with lash and noose and torch, the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
He holds his membership in the masked and oath-bound legion as he holds his high office in the Nation’s Supreme tribune – for life.
For Supreme Court Justice Hugo Lafayette Black bears the proud distinction that not a half-dozen other men in the United States can claim. The cloaked and Hooded Knights of the Klan have bestowed upon him the solid gold engraved Grand Passport that betokens life membership in their mysterious super-government that once ruled half a continent with terror and violence.
★★★★★
“Alabama Case Shows How Father’s Sins Were Visited on Son,” Atlanta Constitution, June 8, 1997
Hays, 26, and 17-year-old accomplice James “Tiger” Knowles were out in search of a black man to mutilate as a result of the Klan 900’s “revenge” for the acquittal the previous day of a black man accused in the highly publicized case of killing a white policeman.
They found Donald walking alone that night, ordered him into their car, drove him into the adjoining Baldwin County and struck him with a tree limb more than 100 times. When he was no longer moving, they looped a rope around his neck and, for good measure, slit his throat.
According to Knowles’ confession to the FBI and his trial testimony, the two Klansmen then drove back to Mobile County to the home of Bennie Hays, father of Henry and second-highest Klan official in Alabama, to show off their deed to Klan members.
“They tied 13 knots in the rope around Donald’s neck, one for each juror in the case they were avenging. Then they hung the body on Herndon Avenue across the street from a house where the Klan once met,” Cohen said.
⭐★★★★
United States Department of Agriculture
Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Land Ownership:
In 1865, Congress passed the Southern Homestead Act to help former slaves gain their own land. It opened up about 46 million acres (18.6 million hectares) of land in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Until Jan 1, 1876, the law specified that free Blacks and white Unionists would be granted 80 acres (increased to 160 acres in 1868) for a small fee. The USDA was charged with notifying freedmen who qualified and preparing them to farm, a task that the agency mostly ignored. Instead, the agency advised freedmen to work for their former masters as sharecroppers.
More former Confederates received land than freedmen. Many of the formerly enslaved worked for generations on land set aside for them. By the time the act was repealed in 1876, only about 3 million acres had been granted. Of the 1.6 million people who received free land, fewer than 6,000 were Black.
Despite the discrimination, Black farmers worked to purchase land, gaining ownership to over 1.5 million acres of land by 1890 – about 14% of U.S. farmland. Today, Black land ownership stands at a paltry 2%.
⭐★★★★
“We’re coming to get our check,” Martin Luther King Jr.
The Historically White Heist: How America illegally looted HBCUs
In 1862, the Morrill Act stole 10.7 million acres from 245 Native American tribal nations … When the Second Morrill Act extended the strong-armed robbery in 1890 to the states that lost a white supremacist insurrection, Congress specified that the land-grant institutions would provide higher education for all races …
Instead, states used these federal and state funds to create and maintain predominately white public institutions. In some years, the historically Black colleges received no money from the states. And, in every single case, there is not a single historically Black land-grant college that has received the legally prescribed funding.
In the past 35 years alone, the larceny amounts to a whopping $13,055,622,325 — an average of nearly $816 million per institution. Even worse, the USDA figures do not factor in the present-day dollar value of the illegally misappropriated funds.
★★★★
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Underwriting and Valuation Procedure Under Title II of the National Housing Act, 1938
Quality of Neighboring Development. The quality of dwelling construction is significant…Areas surrounding a location are investigated to determine whether incompatible racial and social groups are present, for the purpose of making a prediction regarding the probability of the location being invaded by such groups. If a neighborhood is to retain stability, it is necessary that properties shall continue to be occupied by the same social and racial classes. A change in social or racial occupancy generally contributes to a decline in values.
⭐★★★★
“The Best Negro Neighborhood in Atlanta,” Home Owners Loan Corporation:
Heritage Foundation
“‘The Tea Party to the 10th power': Trumpworld bets big on critical race theory,” Politico
Jessica Anderson, executive director of the Heritage Foundation’s advocacy arm, said critical race theory is one of the top two issues her group is working on alongside efforts to tighten voting laws. A former Office of Management and Budget official in the Trump administration, Anderson’s Heritage Action for America put out a pamphlet on Monday calling critical race theory a “destructive” ideology and urging voters to call on their lawmakers to support anti-critical race theory bills introduced by Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Dan Bishop (R-N.C.). It also urges voters to use Freedom of Information Act requests as a tactic to identify critical race theory-tied elements in schools’ curricula.
“It could turn out to be one of the most important conservative grassroots fights since the Tea Party movement,” she said.
⭐★★★★
“The War on Drugs Retreats, Still Taking Prisoners,” The New York Times
How Congress came to write a law that allows a person caught with 400 grams of powder cocaine, worth some $40,000, to do less than a year in jail, while a person holding the same amount of cocaine in crack form will spend 10 years in prison, is a mystery to people who have tried to research the statutory intent…
The law, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, passed the House with only 16 dissenting votes. Despite complaints by some senators that no one had studied the bill, it sailed through the Senate and President Ronald Reagan signed it before Election Day…
Crack was singled out for good reason, according to Edwin Meese, the attorney general in the mid-1980s and now the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow of Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative research organization in Washington.
"Crack cocaine was the scourge of the inner city," he said. "The reason laws were changed was to protect the inner city."
⭐⭐★★★
Project 2025, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, The Heritage Foundation
America is now divided between two opposing forces: woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the ideals of the American revolution. The former believe that America is—and always has been—“systemically racist” and that it is not worth celebrating and must be fundamentally transformed, largely through a centralized administrative state. The latter believe in America’s history and heroes, its principles and promise, and in everyday Americans and the American way of life. They believe in the Constitution and republican government. Conservatives—the Americanists in this battle—must fight for the soul of America, which is very much at stake
⭐★★★★
The Federalist Society
“The Weekend at Yale that Changed American Politics,” Politico
By 2016, the sheer power of the Federalist Society was undeniable. Ironically, though, it was all the more brightly defined by the demise of one of its biggest and earliest boosters. The death of Scalia on February 13, 2016, put control of the Supreme Court squarely in the balance of the presidential election. Every candidate, both Republican and Democratic, understood that immediately—but Trump was the one who best used it to his advantage. He needed to. Nobody in the GOP field had to curry conservative favor more than Trump, a longtime registered Democrat with a record of supporting abortion rights. And he went to work at that…
..[A]s Trump zeroed in on the Republican nomination at the expense of society stalwart Ted Cruz, he had his attorney Don McGahn call executive vice president Leonard Leo…Trump wanted Leo to make a list of the sort of judges he would pick to put on the Supreme Court if he were elected president. He wanted, in essence, to subcontract this task to the Federalist Society, which had performed this duty for previous Republican presidents but never so explicitly—a presidential candidate campaigning loudly against intellectual elites turning unabashedly to a group hatched in that exact environment.
No presidential candidate had ever done this…
For a would-be president who needed to assuage concern about his conservative credentials, this is what did it.
⭐★★★★
“The Federalist Society Just Won Its 40-Year War on Affirmative Action,” Truthout
On June 29, the Supreme Court upheld a challenge to affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina and put an end to race-conscious measures to overcome discrimination. The Federalist Society, an ultra-conservative legal organization, was the central force behind this decision. In immediate terms, the opinions that killed affirmative action were written by the six justices who are or have been members of the Federalist Society, the conservative majority on the court. More significantly, the decision was based on precedents that Federalist Society lawyers had created over the past 40 years.
⭐⭐⭐★★
The White League
“More racist than the Klan, more militant than Confederates,” Ron Chernow, Grant
Unlike the Klan, which was a secret paramilitary group, the White League that formed in Opelousas, Louisiana, in 1874 operated with overtly political aims that included evicting the Republican Party from power. The league didn’t refrain from undisguised violence—one historian described it as “the military arm of the Democratic Party”—and preached imminent race war, but it also engaged in economic pressure and terrorism against blacks who dared to vote. Its credo could be seen in the preamble of the state Democratic platform, which began, “We the white people of Louisiana . . .” Harper’s Weekly wasn’t far from the mark when it termed the White League “an unmasked Ku Klux.
⭐★★★★
White League takes control of the press:
“Beckwith Tells of Negroes Slaughtered at Colfax,” New Orleans Bulletin, Feb. 3, 1875
It was a very peaceable community until last summer, when the White League was formed. There was no disturbance really until the meeting was held in Natchitoches, when the people of Red River parish were told by the Natchitoches malcontents that if the Radical stronghold, Coushatta, was not cleaned out, they (the Natchitoches people) would go up there and do it…
The only reason for killing the negro Winn and his companion could have been for no other reason than that he refused to act with the Democratic party. A negro named Allen, a bold man and prominent Republican leader, was taken out of his house and led to the woods, where, after having his legs and arms broken by bullets, he was burned to death. These outrages had a most intimidating effect upon the negroes, and caused many of them not to register. Witness left Coushatta about two weeks after the election and fears to return.
★★★★★
Police
Fraternal Order of Police Endorses Donald Trump!
Nation’s Oldest and Largest Police Labor Organization Will Support Trump on Election Day:
Washington, DC - Patrick Yoes, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, announced today that the members of the FOP voted to endorse Donald J. Trump for President of the United States.
“Public safety and border security will be important issues in the last months of this campaign,” Yoes said. “Our members carefully considered the positions of the candidates on the issues and there was no doubt—zero doubt—as to who they want as our President for the next four years: Donald J. Trump.”
…In order to secure our endorsement, the candidate needs the support of two-thirds of the State Lodges, a benchmark former President Trump easily cleared.
"During his first term, President Trump made it clear he supported law enforcement and border security,” Yoes said. “In the summer of 2020, he stood with us when very few would. With his help, we defeated the ‘defund the police’ movement and, finally, we are seeing crime rates decrease. If we want to maintain these lower crime rates, we must re-elect Donald Trump.”
Founded in 1915, the Fraternal Order of Police is the largest law enforcement organization in the United States, with more than 377,000 members.
★★★★★
“Trump’s Justice Department halts police reform agreements,” CNN
The Trump administration is putting a halt to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the Justice Department found a pattern of misconduct, according to a memo issued Wednesday….
The move was widely anticipated with the change of administrations and has the potential to upend police reform efforts in Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky,
During his campaign, Trump vowed to “back the blue,” a slogan meant to show support for police even when officers are accused of misconduct or civil rights violations. In Trump’s first administration, the Justice Department similarly sought to scuttle police consent decrees.
The Louisville decree was reached in mid-December after a yearslong investigation into the city’s police department following the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in 2020.
The agreement with Minneapolis reached earlier this month came years after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of officers with the city’s police department. A DOJ probe of the department found that its officers used excessive force, including “unjustified deadly force.”
Among other things, the agreement focused on Minneapolis “preventing excessive force; stopping racially discriminatory policing; improving officers’ interactions with youth” and “protecting the public’s First Amendment rights,” according to DOJ.
⭐★★★★
National Rifle Association
NRA Board member blames racist massacre on victims of racist massacre:
National Rifle Association board member Charles L. Cotton wrote that the victims of a mass shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church died because of Reverend Clementa Pinckney's advocacy for gun safety laws.
Pinckney, along with eight others, was killed by a gunman during a June 17 attack at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 2013, Pinckney, who was also a South Carolina State Senator, introduced legislation to require more comprehensive background checks on gun sales and supported several other gun safety measures during his career as a legislator.
In a post on an online forum for Texas supporters of the concealed carry of handguns, Cotton wrote, “he [Rev. Pinckney] voted against concealed-carry. Eight of his church members who might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns in church are dead. Innocent people died because of his position on a political issue.”
At the bottom of Cotton's post was an image that promoted NRA membership.
⭐⭐★★★
NRATV Host explains crime:
Voting for “Minority Females” Is DEI, Marietta Daily Journal
The new president of the National Rifle Association has her sights set on growing the organization’s membership and reclaiming Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District for Republicans as she begins a two-year term at the helm.
Carolyn Meadows’ interest in the latter hits close to home. Her roots run deep into east Cobb.
The 80-year-old Meadows was born and reared in east Cobb…Meadows’ own backyard will be part of the political battlefield as she and other right-leaning groups target U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Marietta, who represents Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District.
“There will be more than one person in the race, but we'll get that seat back,” Meadows said. “But it is wrong to say like McBath said, that the reason she won was because of her anti-gun stance. That didn't have anything to do with it — it had to do with being a minority female.
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D. All of the Above
I’m not sure it would have mattered who was up against the police.