Perhaps the Dotard is doing us a favor inadvertantly.

[bluescribbler]

Before the Tulsa Rally was announced how many white Americans knew of the significance of Juneteenth, or of the Greenwood Massacre? I dare say very few, but many more do now, thanks to the extensive coverage in the news and on social media.
Before the announced move of the RNC to Jacksonville, how many knew of Axe Handle Saturday? Again, I dare say very few, but again many more do now.
This may be a good thing as more white Americans become more aware of the horror black Americans have suffered over the course of US history and we come to recognize more how our white privilege has harmed our fellow citizens.

[katmondoo]

1. I live in Florida and I never heard of the Greenwood Massacre

I am a transplant from N.Y.

[brush]

2. Here's new of one right in Florida. Ever heard of Rosewood?

"The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida. At least six black people and two white people were killed, though eyewitness accounts suggested a higher death toll of 27 to 150. The town of Rosewood was destroyed, ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre

There was some compensation decades later but so much of deaths and destruction of property by whites against African Americans has gone unpunished and uncompensated for. And that's really a drop in the bucket to the 250 years of stolen, uncompensated laber during enslavement, and of course there is the Jim Crow era and the present day killing of black men by police and other whites who think they can just kill black men.

Just saying. Reparations anyone?