Erasing January 6th

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May 28, 2021
I was a history geek who grew up learning absolutely ZERO about the 1921 Tulsa massacre (plus scores of other white attacks on Black Americans). I remember reading a piece on Tulsa maybe 15 years ago and thinking, 'Whoa, that sounds like a pretty big deal.' Now, white... 1/2

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...supremacists are determined to do the exact same thing with the Jan. 6 insurrection, to toss it down the memory hole so some school kid 50 years from now will -- just like Tulsa -- never hear about it. We must fight to keep this from happening 2/2

Erasing January 6th
Just like other white supremacist atrocities in the past, are Trump supporters actively erasing the events of January 6th?
medium.com
5:26 AM · May 28, 2021

https://medium.com/ctrlaltrightdelete/erasing-january-6th-ccb48cb85b92

On June 10, 1963, a handful of protesters picketed the Danville, Va., City Hall following the mistreatment of activists who were demanding the city government change its hiring practices to hire Black people. Under a mayor known as a staunch segregationist, the police attacked the protestors and arrested them. Later that day, a larger group of protesters led by a local minister, Rev. Lawrence Campbell, marched to the city jail where the picketers were being held. They were met with even worse violence. The police deputized sanitation workers, and turned fire hoses on the crowd. “Some were washed under the cars; others were clubbed after the water knocked them down,” recalled Dorothy Miller, an activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). “Bodies lay on the street, drenched and bloody.” The violence drove outrage and national attention as part of the broader national civil rights movement.

But as a young white man growing up in a conservative, Southern Baptist family outside of Danville just two decades later, the number of times I heard about these events, which came to be known as Bloody Monday, was exactly zero. It was hardly discussed in our schools, or mentioned in the white community. Nor was the Danville Massacre 80 years before it — when white men shot indiscriminately at Black citizens after a minor altercation. Over the years, I’ve talked about these events with other white classmates- none recall ever being told these stories. But my Black classmates learned the true history of our community in their churches. The erasure was nearly complete, until local activists involved in today’s racial justice movement were able to finally place a historic marker. I think about it quite a lot: the sinister power of white supremacy to assert false narratives or simply disappear events that are counter to its interests.

Is something similar already starting to happen with the January 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol? Just three months since that gruesome day, are we witnessing the early stages of the erasure of the violence from the minds of Trump-supporting Republicans? Or is it something even more sinister: the complete fictionalization of the history of the event into something for which its participants should be proud?

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[underpants]

1. Tulsa s within the last 10 years for me. Danville was today

I’d never heard of it until today. Danville is just under 3 hours from here.

[spanone]

2. As soon as thugs vote down the 1/6 Commission, ANNOUNCE THAT THE DEMS INVESTIGATION BEGINS.

So tired of these traitorous bastards.

[BComplex]

3. Republicans are trying to "cancel" January 6.

They're really into accusations of "cancel culture", unless they're the ones doing it.

[PortTack]

4. They will never be able to erase 1.6 like they did Tulsa..it's called the internet

[underpants]

5. Kick