The purposes of Bringing this up 100 years later is to do what? Fan flames?
Who profits from all this? Nobody ever asks this question.
It will be in the news on Monday, but the news will not have this information.
So you didn’t pay attention to the bicentennial activities? The 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War? The 75th anniversary of the end of World War II or the 150th anniversary of Fort Sumpter?
History just not your thing? .
A different version of events is being circulated which shows no responsibility for black people in the matter, and entire responsibility on white people.
This is some sort of “balance”. Both should be read to attempt to gain a perspective of what really happened.
History rhymes.
“white agitators, reds and. bolshevists” Truth. Still causing problems.
The left has been building up the myth making of this event for the last 5 to 10 years. The prisoner was not lynched and he was protected by the sheriff, the sheriff had witnessed a white prisoner lynched and killed either the previous week or previous month. And that got omitted from a lot of the discussion of this latter lynching attempt.
I suppose people are kicking themselves now that they didn’t take the opportunity to hype up the hundredth anniversary of the Houston riot of 1917.