re: #193 reloadingisnotahobby

Good morning all!
Some interesting reading of the Reconstruction Post Civil War..
and 1866 Civil Rights bill…
[Link: www1.law.nyu.edu…]

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“Representatives William D. Kelley, speaking on March 29, 1871 in response to an argument that the Ku Klux Klan was a necessary and reasonable reaction to the foundation of “negro militias” and to the claim that black people in the South in fact did not suffer from discrimination. “

The same zero-sum, paranoiac mentality is behind lynching and other forms of conservative race rage - we must annihilate you to protect our superiority complex.