Posted on May 17, 2022
Buffalo's Black community is reeling after being targeted by a mass shooting
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On Saturday, a shooter targeted shoppers at the only Black-run grocery store in Buffalo, New York. Ten people were killed and three were injured. Eleven of the victims were African American.
The racist attack left residents of Buffalo and America reeling but has especially shaken the city’s Black population.
“We want deep history to be taught, for the truth be told, and all of this racism to stop,” jazz promoter Denise McMichael-Houston told The Guardian.
Reporter Edward Helmore also spoke to her cousin, educator Ellen Lucas, who said, “The problem is that they will not teach accurate history in schools. I have lived in this city 72 years and everything here is racist. We have this one supermarket.”
The racist attack left residents of Buffalo and America reeling but has especially shaken the city’s Black population.
“We want deep history to be taught, for the truth be told, and all of this racism to stop,” jazz promoter Denise McMichael-Houston told The Guardian.
Reporter Edward Helmore also spoke to her cousin, educator Ellen Lucas, who said, “The problem is that they will not teach accurate history in schools. I have lived in this city 72 years and everything here is racist. We have this one supermarket.”
Buffalo's Black community is reeling after being targeted by a mass shooting
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel can we just live and breath the same AIR, goodness gracious.
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SPC Michael Terrell - That may very well be, but we cannot lock them up for their thoughts.
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Here is how it goes currently in America especially with the radical right.
Shooter is Mexican - Build the wall, keep the immigrants out.
Shooter is Middle Eastern - The terrorist have got to be stopped.
Shooter is Black - BLM, criminals, rap music, etc.
Shooter is white - We have failed our youth and need to get better with mental health. Let's figure out where we went wrong.
Shooter is Mexican - Build the wall, keep the immigrants out.
Shooter is Middle Eastern - The terrorist have got to be stopped.
Shooter is Black - BLM, criminals, rap music, etc.
Shooter is white - We have failed our youth and need to get better with mental health. Let's figure out where we went wrong.
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PFC (Join to see) - That's the majority of my rural town in Nebraska. They definitely didn't like Hispanics - people literally shot at the apartments some lived in and they fled. There's one family that's Native American but I don't think most of them even live there anymore. I think one girl who is a year younger than me still does. One black person has graduated from my high school in it's existence. I heard she was adopted by a pastor (she graduated in the 70s). One time there was a black guy and a white lady who moved into town and she had a daughter. They ended up moving, and apparently the wife sent a letter to the editor to the town paper about this, that it was due to the daughter being bullied about her stepdad and called racial terms and they'd call him racial terms. One time, the town doctor was Middle Eastern. I can't remember where he was from but they were really nice people. Him, his wife, their kid and her mother. High school kids would make fun of the wife and mother for wearing hjabs. They ended up moving.
It's primarily white, majority Catholic with some Methodist and Lutherans. The town hasn't changed since I joined the Army. The people on city council are so afraid of change they're going to kill that town. I'll laugh if they do because there's no reason that they can't build the town back up.
It's primarily white, majority Catholic with some Methodist and Lutherans. The town hasn't changed since I joined the Army. The people on city council are so afraid of change they're going to kill that town. I'll laugh if they do because there's no reason that they can't build the town back up.
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SFC (Join to see) most of these towns were corporate towns that died when the industry dried up and the stragglers stay behind. These bumpkins are so impervious to change. People say can't take in migrants or immigrants yet areas such as this are so close to dead that migration to them would be like shocking someone back to life. It continues to bug me to this very day.
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Sundown Towns :
Historical Database of Sundown Towns
Select a state from the map below to view a list of sundown towns
“Welcome to the world’s only registry of sundown towns. Just click on a state to see an alphabetical list of all the sundown towns we know about, think may been sundown towns, and have managed to get up onto the site.
A sundown town is not just a place where something racist happened. It is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was “all white” on purpose. “All white” is in quotes because some towns allowed one black family to remain when they drove out the rest. Also, institutionalized persons (in prisons, hospitals, colleges, etc.), live-in servants (in white households), and black or interracial children (in white households) do not violate the taboo.
“On purpose” does not require a formal ordinance. If, for example, a black family tried to move in, encountered considerable hostility, and left, that would qualify the town as “sundown.” Note that some sundown towns kept out Chinese Americans, Jews, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, even Mormons.”
SOURCE : https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/01/26/feature/traveling-while-black-why-some-americans-are-afraid-to-explore-their-own-country/
THE NEGRO MOTORIST GREEN BOOK
About the Project
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guidebook for African American travelers that provided a list of hotels, boarding houses, taverns, restaurants, service stations and other establishments throughout the country that served African Americans patrons. Victor H. Green published it annually from 1936 to 1966 when discrimination against African Americans was widespread. During this period, African Americans faced racial prejudice, price gouging and physical violence while traveling around the United States. The information included in The Negro Motorist Green Book helped increase their safety and treatment.
SOURCE : https://transcription.si.edu/project/7955
Historical Database of Sundown Towns
Select a state from the map below to view a list of sundown towns
“Welcome to the world’s only registry of sundown towns. Just click on a state to see an alphabetical list of all the sundown towns we know about, think may been sundown towns, and have managed to get up onto the site.
A sundown town is not just a place where something racist happened. It is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was “all white” on purpose. “All white” is in quotes because some towns allowed one black family to remain when they drove out the rest. Also, institutionalized persons (in prisons, hospitals, colleges, etc.), live-in servants (in white households), and black or interracial children (in white households) do not violate the taboo.
“On purpose” does not require a formal ordinance. If, for example, a black family tried to move in, encountered considerable hostility, and left, that would qualify the town as “sundown.” Note that some sundown towns kept out Chinese Americans, Jews, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, even Mormons.”
SOURCE : https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/01/26/feature/traveling-while-black-why-some-americans-are-afraid-to-explore-their-own-country/
THE NEGRO MOTORIST GREEN BOOK
About the Project
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a guidebook for African American travelers that provided a list of hotels, boarding houses, taverns, restaurants, service stations and other establishments throughout the country that served African Americans patrons. Victor H. Green published it annually from 1936 to 1966 when discrimination against African Americans was widespread. During this period, African Americans faced racial prejudice, price gouging and physical violence while traveling around the United States. The information included in The Negro Motorist Green Book helped increase their safety and treatment.
SOURCE : https://transcription.si.edu/project/7955
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