Thanks rktman. It's the proper time of the year to bring it up -- Black History Month -- because of Crispus Attucks (even then, crazy made-up names) and who knows more about oppression and taxation without representation. Particularly under a racist, Nazi regime. ;')
An aside -- the British soldiers who fired at the Boston Massacre were given their day in court, and their defense was (mostly successfully) conducted by future US President, John Adams.
Actually, didn’t I miss ‘bhm’ by a couple days? I thought it was the entire month of February. Of course ‘they’ would be “granted” the shortest month of the year by evil old white men. How racis’. ;-)
“On March 5, 1770, a mob formed in Boston to protest. In the confusion, British troops fired into the crowd, killing five, one of which was the African-American patriot, Crispus Attucks.”
While we like to celebrate them as heroes, “mob” was the operative word for that crowd, even among patriots.
They were regarded at the time pretty much the way we do antifa, as an out of control bunch spoiling for a fight.
The lawyer who defended the soldiers who fired into the crowd was none other than John Adams, our future President.
