The Coup on Cape Fear - Part One: The Dark Scheme
Historical Blindness
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The Great White Man's Rally and Picnic
The white citizens of wilmington began to stock pile an arsenal of revolvers and winchester rifles. They even acquired a rapid fire gun that they placed on a tug boat just off shore. And they invited certain black leaders to a demonstration of their artillery peace, just to intimidate them. Unsurprisingly, some black citizens, fearing for their safety, also attempted to acquire guns. And the white gun sellers refused to fulfil their orders and informed josephus daniels, who reported on it as proof of the black conspiracy to rise up in armed revolt. It was all part of the white supremiists plan to gaslight, to obfuscate, to project, such that when they finally
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