Let's learn about Ocoee, FL:
Video does have captions.
It’s taken a century, but family tales of the Ocoee Massacre, passed down by survivors through at least three generations, are at last shapi
I didn't post as much content as I wanted to during Black History Month. It is nor just important, but necessary to celebrate the achievements of Black people, the triumphs of Black people, the innumerous cultural contributions that Black People have made to American Culture, but one of the strangest things that happens is a sense of "See, THEY succeeded, why can't you?". The most salient version of this happened after Obama was first elected president (and I do plan on posting about that phenomenon seperately) and that kind of thing is an ahistorical observation.
Events like the Ocoee Massacre is why. It is just an example of countless times of violence being used to suppress Black people and people of color. We have to see just how persistent, pernicious, and intentional the effort was to keep people down. If you cannot see that, then yeah, I guess it makes it difficult to understand the context in which we find ourselves today.
Literally 100 years ago violence was used to disenfranchise Black political power. Fast forward to present day, where violence was used once again in an attempt to overturn an election in which Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and Latinx communities showed up and showed out and white supremacists didn't like that. So they reached for a very familiar tool that worked for them in the past.
Anyways, just wanted to get that out.
--silentaugur
