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June 17, 2006
Democrats Should Pay Reparations
That's what a study concluded:
North Carolina should compensate victims of racial violence that led to the overthrow of a racially mixed city government a century ago and ushered in a new political era in the Jim Crow South, a fact-finding commission recommended Wednesday.
The murders and terrorizing of blacks by white supremacists in 1898 led to a Democratic takeover from Republicans who controlled the city of Wilmington during Reconstruction.
...By murdering and terrorizing blacks in Wilmington on Nov. 10, 1898, white supremacists were able to overthrow government officials at gunpoint - the only recorded violent government overthrow in U.S. history, according to the 500-page report.
...The attacks killed as many as 60 people and sparked an exodus of 2,100 blacks, the commission concluded. Then the largest city in the state, Wilmington flipped from a black majority to a white majority in the months following the violence.
Democrats quickly passed voter literacy tests and a grandfather clause, which disenfranchised black voters until the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Wilmington likely became a "catalyst" for the violent white supremacist movement around the country, with other states taking note, said Lerae Umfleet, the state's lead researcher.
The article does indicate that the study was commissioned by a Democrat. So much for the rewriting of history by the leftists in this country.
I am against reparations to descendents of victims, but perhaps the city itself could mount a successful lawsuit against the DNC.
Posted by Aaron at June 17, 2006 09:38 PM
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