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Re: Trumpism is an echo
« Reply #30 on: June 22, 2022, 11:29:33 pm »
https://us.yahoo.com/news/editorial-story-jay-proves-racist-163741292.html

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As Gov. Ron DeSantis and loyalist legislators carry on a campaign to control and silence curriculum pertaining to the role historic racism has played in shaping America, research from local historian Tom Garner puts a harsh light on the moral and factual wrongness of how Florida Republicans are trying to manipulate public education and whitewash history that's already been hidden for far too long.

The fact is that historic racism from white Americans against Black Americans continues to shape the places we call home today. The town of Jay is a living local example of that which contradicts the dishonest "culture wars" being pushed by Florida politicians.

As reported by Jim Little, in the early 1920s the Jay area was home to as many as 175 Black residents, almost all of whom were farmers. Today, there are only 13 Black residents in the Jay area and only four in the town itself, according to 2020 census data.

What triggered that exodus of generations of local black farmers was a story largely hidden from public knowledge. After nearly 15 years of research, Garner explains how an argument between a Black farmer and a white farmer started it all.

In short, when a white farmer became angry that he could not immediately use a piece of farming equipment owned by the Black farmer, he attacked the Black farmer with an iron bar. The Black farmer pulled out a gun and shot the white farmer in self defense. But he was forced to flee from being lynched before he was arrested. The resulting uproar from white outrage in the 1920's drove nearly the entire population of Black farmers from their land by 1930 and Jay infamously became a "sundown town" in the decades afterward.
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the story shows how vicious and deep rooted Southern racism drove generations of family off of land and totally reshaped a town that would most likely look extremely different today had those Black families and farmers been allowed to exist freely in peace.
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And this hard, local history underscores the shameful effort by Florida's political class to whitewash, control and manipulate education and history that has already been buried for far too long.

Any plans to give the land back?