Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government

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1. I just read this story last nite in the New York Review of Books

It's a horrifying story, but not all that uncommon in the reconstruction south. This was a crime against humanity.

I have come to have enormous gratitude to AAs for the very existence of our democracy, as incomplete as it is. We would never have gotten even this far without their sacrifice to force us to live up to the promises of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

All Americans owe a deep debt of gratitude and reparations to those who have led us out of darkness over the centuries, at such enormous cost.