David Zucchino Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

[littlemissmartypants]

David Zucchino is a contributing writer for The New York Times. He has covered wars and civil conflicts in more than three dozen countries. Zucchino was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his dispatches from apartheid South Africa and is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for his reporting from Iraq, Lebanon, Africa, and inner-city Philadelphia. He is the author of Thunder Run and Myth of the Welfare Queen. In his new book, Zucchino tells the story of the 19th-century North Carolina port city that, while once a burgeoning example of a mixed-race community, exploded into racial violence that erased the progress made by formerly enslaved people and their children.

[radical noodle]

1. Bookmarking

Sounds like a great book. I just finished one about the KKK in the Midwest in the 1920s. It was an eye opener because the things they did to promote the KKK are almost exactly what trump has been doing. We can learn a lot from history.

[rampartd]

2. the film is brutal

compare the organization and tactics of these trumpist trash with those of the supremecists.

these guys haven't changed since appomattox.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Did you watch American Experience tonight?

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/american-coup-wilmington-1898/

I cried so much.

❤️

[rampartd]

4. precisely

it effected me physically.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. I completely understand. ❤️

[rampartd]

6. and i so needed a hug! thank you maam

is this part of their weird propaganda "shock and awe?" or maybe just the utter shock.