Slocum, TX

[Geechie]

I wonder how the descendants of the hundred or so Black people massacred in Slocum feel about this latest shooting being called the worst in Texas history.

https://www.npr.org/2016/01/15/463224198/slocum-massacre-highlights-historical-double-standard-in-the-south

[MagickMuffin]

1. "about 200 were killed,

and that a cover-up began not long after the shooting stopped - a cover-up that has continued for decades."


I have never heard about this massacre and I am a Native Texan.

Thx for posting this important post, Geechie

[Geechie]

2. 200!

Unreal .. the massacres of other-than-white people keep getting swept under the rug.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Shoot them in the back and sweep them under the rug

Welcome to DU Geechie!!!

[Geechie]

6. Thank you!

Good to be back.

[malaise]

3. Black Lives Don't Matter

Don't yah know.

[Geechie]

4. Yup.