White Mob in Opelousas, Louisiana killed nearly 300 Blacks Over The Right To Vote.

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8. Hidden history

And there are many, many other instances just like this throughout the history of this country where not only lives were lost but valuable property was destroyed or stolen (Rosewood, Florida, Colifax, La, Whicita, Kan, Knoxville, Tenn., East St. Louis, Mo, Tulsa, OK, NYC draft riots, and on and on. Can anyone say reparations aren't deserved as these crimes went unpunished, there was never compensation for destroyed or stolen property and the murders were justified by racist media then forgotten and certainly never mentioned in history books. The thing to remember though is that there has always been a schism in the white community — those with compassion, a conscience and a willingness to join in the fight for justice, and those with racist hatred. The schism is what drove us to civil war and is still with us today and half of it now resides in the GOP/teabagger party of obstruction. Funny, the Republican Party at that time was the party that fought for justice. Unfortunately it changed over the years, especially in 1964 when President Johnson signed historic civil rights legislation and the Democratic Party's dixiecrats switched to the Republican Party in protest, and the rest is history.