On Oct. 18, 1867, white South Carolinians awoke to incredibly disturbing news.
“There is no use ignoring a palpable fact,” the Charleston Daily News explained. “Every negro almost in the State is enrolled in the League, and is nearly as much under discipline as though he were in the army. They will vote in solid phalanx....We may have to endure Radical rule for a season. This, then, being the case, it is eminently proper that every white man in the State of South Carolina should gravely and earnestly reflect on the best course to be pursued to prevent a permanent tyranny from being fastened on our necks.”
And the terror began.
Today’s Wake-Up Call began with our Black History Month series on The Blackest Squads of All Time. After discussing the Union Leagues, we talked about this icon and this clown:
This statement:
And this moment in Black history:
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Today’s Reading List:
Created 150 Years Ago, the Justice Department’s First Mission Was to Protect Black Rights by Bryan Greene
Abolishing the Police, Explained by Michael Harriot
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Hip Hop: A People’s History of Political Rap by Derek Ide
The false fantasy of funding the police by Michael Harriot
