re: Just saw this on Facebook (Orlando related/race baiting)

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How is this possible?

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Slowflo used to have a job that mostly involved being a warm body at a location and waiting for something to happen. He posted to keep himself entertained.

Hookem put that as his location.

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The "Indian Removal Act" of 1830 attempted to move roughly 50,000 Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and others from their home to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma). The U.S. government did not provide any means of transportation, forcing them to walk the 2,200 miles. One can reasonably argue that the U.S. government did fully expect many of them to die on the way — especially children and the elderly. The U.S. government recorded 4,000 deaths on just one of many re-location marches among the Cherokee alone; estimates of the total death toll range from as low as 5,000 to as high as 25,000

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On November 29, 1864, 700 militia from Colorado and the surrounding territories surrounded a peaceful encampment of so-called "Peace Chiefs," predominantly from the Cheyenne and Arapahoe, who had been invited to end the "Indian Wars." Without warning or cause, they opened fire and slaughtered approximately 150 Indians from various "western" tribes. Colonel Chivington and his men cut fetuses out of the women, slaughtered infants by stepping on their heads with their boots, cut the genitals off men and women, and decorated their horses and wagons with scalps, genitalia, and other body parts, before parading through Denver.

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Sitting Bull's death caused a number of his tribesmen to flee the reservation. Later when journeying to another reservation they were intercepted by a regiment of cavalry, which attempted to disarm them. One deaf-mute man did not understand the order, so he failed to put down his rifle. It went off as soldiers took it from him, resulting in their comrades opening fire, believing they were under attack. 150 Sioux were killed in all. This massacre was committed by the Seventh US Cavalry, a unit formerly under command of General George A. Custer, so revenge for his spectacular, lethal defeat in battle with the Sioux and their allies may have contributed to it.

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Oh wait, that killing doesn't count, right. It happened well before our time and it was perpetrated against a bunch of 'dindus' so it doesn't matter.

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So... I take it you know nothing about the East St Louis riots? Flashback 99-100 years ago there is a heavy influx of southern african americans into the northern industrial cities. These country boys walk talk and act different than the northern white union boys. White union puts a mob together in fear they will lose their jobs to cheaper labor. Illinois Gov calls in National Guard to stop it. IIRC A few weeks later white boy shoots a gun in the air while riding through an african american community. This does not go over well obviously and a group of african american boys find a car full of white men ( cops and a reporter IIRC) and kill them leaving a gruesome. Word spreads, mob gets back together and the national guard couldn't stop them. This was mob style retribution coerced by racism, not a terrorist attack.

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You start a conversation you can't even finish it. You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything. When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed. Say something once, why say it again?

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One of the greatest songs ever!

No one's gonna say anything about how the top of the newspaper is conveniently cropped to show Republican in big letters?