I defy anyone, even you, to assert that murder, rape, and robbery of black people by white people, or even by other blacks, was universally ignored by law enforcement throughout the south, let alone the rest of the country. And I know all about Rosewood and Tulsa. But I also know about New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Newark, Detroit, Miami, Cincinatti, etc.
Yes. It was. It was so commonplace, so routine, that lynchings were practically staged carnivals where refreshements were sold. It was an era where the Senator from Tennesee bragged that he could not possibly remember how many black men he had killed. It was an era where Booker T Washington himself was physically beaten on the street in public by a white man and it was Booker, not the white man, who went to trial (to make the point that even the most powerful black man in America could be beaten up by any white man who wanted to). And what do the pogroms (and that is what they were) that took place in Rosewood and Tulsa have to do with Newark and Detroit ? Were the police on the side of the rioters in Newark and Detroit ? They were in Tulsa and Rosewood.
You are precisely the kind of conservative blacks have no good reason whatsoever to trust.
I'm fairly certain you know the answer. One of the most successful Big Lies to come out of the twentieth century is that the Democratic Party is the natural political home for Americans of African descent.
Two final minor, albeit instructional, examples: George H.W. Bush was one of the earliest fund raisers for the United Negro College Fund. Regarding his son, having been raised by Yankee parents in segregated 1950's and 60's Midland, Texas one of Junior's first memories was having his mouth washed out with soap when his mother heard him use a racial slur that was commonplace among his classmates. No one has ever reported hearing him utter the word since.
"Yes. It was. It was so commonplace, so routine, that lynchings were practically staged carnivals where refreshements were sold. It was an era where the Senator from Tennesee bragged that he could not possibly remember how many black men he had killed. It was an era where Booker T Washington himself was physically beaten on the street in public by a white man and it was Booker, not the white man, who went to trial (to make the point that even the most powerful black man in America could be beaten up by any white man who wanted to)."
I must say, I would be moved to righteous indignation if I were a witness to the kind of mindless injustice and cruelty you describe. And I would certainly act to stop such depradations. But I can't buy the argument that this kind of thing was a daily occurrence, condoned by the police, and indicative of the attitudes of the majority of white people in this country. If this were true, then no change would have been possible. There would have been no Abolitionist movement and no "Civil Rights movement".
I've read "Up From Slavery" and am familiar with the injustices Booker T. Washington was forced to endure. But I also know that many members of the white community admired the man and supported him in many ways, and suffered as a result. As a Catholic, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the many instances of injustice suffered by Catholics, and Jews as well, at the hands of these sorts of murderers during the same era.
However, none of this has anything whatsoever to do with my original point. The Marxist argument for Leviathan government, or with the Democrat implementation of socialistic and communistic policies resulting in total government control of every aspect of our lives, will only engender more of the same. If anything, it reinforces the need to better implement the principles of freedom and liberty, with equal protection under the law, for ALL people. And world history of the past two hundred years has clearly shown that the American system is more likely to result in social justice, by any measure, than any other form of government or economic organization that has been tried.
"And what do the pogroms (and that is what they were) that took place in Rosewood and Tulsa have to do with Newark and Detroit ? Were the police on the side of the rioters in Newark and Detroit ? They were in Tulsa and Rosewood."
The point I tried to make here is that there is a myopic distortion in focusing on your own tribulations, to the point of fetishism, without regard to the similar trials of others unlike yourself in other communities around the world. Why bitch today about what happened in the Jim Crow south when literally millions more have been consumed by statist lunacies around the world in the same time period? And then conclude that what we need to do is continue down the very road, through Democrat statist policies, that led to the multitudinous bloodshed on a vastly greater scale?
This is the problem of the black community. There needs to be a maturation on the part of the majority of blacks that their real future lies with the principles of freedom and liberty in this imperfect world. And it won't happen under big government Democrats, but only with the policies of those "conservative" Republicans they constantly, and STUPIDLY, want to vilify.