‘Reverse Freedom Rides’: An echo of Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights 60 years ago (barfalert)

Wash Compost ^ | 9/16/22 | Gillian Brockell and Jodie Tillman

[Impala64ssa]

Tricked by segregationists with promises of work and housing, Black families were dropped in Cape Cod with nothing. Sound familiar?

Eliza Davis was bewildered the day she arrived in a wealthy tourist town on Cape Cod. An agricultural worker, she had been promised work and housing if she took a free trip to another state. Days later, disembarking with her eight children, she had little idea where she was, that a president had a family compound down the road, or that she was a “pawn,” as locals told the New York Times, in a political stunt.

Davis, 36, was not among the migrants who arrived Wednesday in Martha’s Vineyard — a resort island off Cape Cod where former president Barack Obama has a home — courtesy of a flight arranged by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). She was a Black woman from Alabama, bused to and abandoned in Hyannis, Mass., in 1962, not far from the holiday home of President John F. Kennedy.

Today’s migrants in Martha’s Vineyard are now being transported to the same Cape Cod military base that housed the “Reverse Freedom Riders” decades ago.

It was all part of the so-called Reverse Freedom Rides, arranged by White segregationists in 1962 in retaliation for the Freedom Rides of the previous summer, when Black and White volunteers rode buses through the South supporting desegregation

The plot was organized by white supremacist Citizens’ Councils in Arkansas, who bought radio ads and made fliers advertising the “opportunity” to African Americans.

They focused on recruiting men with criminal records and single mothers with a lot of children, cynically presuming White liberals would welcome them the least.

[Impala64ssa]

Looks like a 1960 Dodge behind them. And a 1957 Fairlane in the background. Nice rides!

So Gov deSantis got the left's collective panties up in a wad (HMMM, poor choice of words when describing this particular demographic?) Resorting to whataboutism and moral equivocating, calling this so called "stunt" cheap politics and.....wait for eeeet....(reverb) RACIST. All he did was apply one of Alinsky's rules for radicals, #4 force the enemy to live by their own rules. No human is illegal! Love is love! All are welcome! Hate has no home here!

[dynachrome]

“disembarking with her eight children”

No mention of daddy, even back then.

[Libloather]

...cynically presuming White liberals would welcome them the least.

So, they were removed even back then? Very bad optics.

[Impala64ssa]

[Toddsterpatriot]

Did the northern cities deport the minorities like Martha's Vineyard did, in less than 48 hours?

[Robert DeLong]

In 1960, the entire South were solidly Democrat supporters.

[Drew68]

This is a real headline.

They enriched us.’ Migrants’ 44-hour visit leaves indelible mark on Martha’s Vineyard

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Martha's Vineyard wecomes Migrants

"Hit. the road."

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

[VeniVidiVici]

Fewer illegals were in Martha’s Vineyard than people who attended Obama’s birthday party

[hanamizu]

They are desperately pushing the ‘racism’ angle. NYC, DC, and Chicago are all run by black democrat mayors and Martha’s Vineyard is one home of Barrack Obama, so sending ‘border crossers’ to any of these places is racist.

Apparently Martha’s Vineyard despite being a vacation destination has no hotels on the island with any empty rooms. It also seems to lack any facility that can prepare 50 meals, so of course, the only humane thing to do is ship the illegals to a military base on the mainland.

[TigersEye]

Migrants Are ‘Thanking’ Gov. DeSantis For Sending Them To Martha’s Vineyard

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Absolutely. Changes happened after IKE.

[Drew68]

[TigersEye]

Martha's Vineyard Takes Revenge On DeSantis By Shipping Him 50 Karens

[popdonnelly]

Nobody remembers any of that unless these stupid fake news outlets bring it up.

[nicollo]

Inverting the intended effect, is this not precisely what Biteme's immigration policies are designed to do?

They focused on recruiting men with criminal records and single mothers with a lot of children, cynically presuming White liberals would welcome them the least the most.

Leftists have no shame.

[lastchance]

Would I be wrong to surmise that the “reverse freedom riders” were as well received as those who ended up in Martha’s Vineyard?