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The History of American Police and the Ku Klux Klan

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

How Black People Don't Arm During Red Summer

The first riots started in chicago after a black child mistakenly swam into a chunk of beach that was white's only under jim crow. A small group of black people gathered at a rural church to organize a share croppers union, and they had been sent there specifically to stop the union from organizing. One arkansas gazette article opened with the headline, negroes plan to kill all whitesa lord y'all. And i hope the listeners here like as he gets into this story again, just like we said, you know, to the militia folk that are like, how come black people don't arm? And when we say, you think we ain't thought of

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