Let the Fire Burn is a really good documentary on this event.
Comment on May 13, 1985
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Holy shit, I’d never heard about this.
bulwark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Let the Fire Burn
Added to my list of stuff to watch. Thanks!
ghostface@lemmy.world 6 months ago
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s hardly the only one that US public schooling completely avoids teaching about… Tulsa, OK, OK to TN before that, and Wyoming too… the despicably shameful list goes on
cerement@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
but only the third (?) time that US citizens were subject to aerial bombardment … so, um … there’s that?
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I suggest looking up what the Pinkertons were about as well. The US had a nasty history when it comes to the poor and people of color who get “uppity”.
They still exist to this day, and do the same business. There more recent thing was being hired by Wizards of the Coast to intimidate someone who received MTG cards before official release date.
This was a big stink on the R site; there is no reason to maintain that company name except to capitalize on its horrifying reputation.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I know very well what the Pinkertons did back then — and are still doing as part of various union-buster merc groups hired by Amazon, Starbucks, etc. (the WotC thing is a blip that happened to ruffle geek feathers, so it bubbled up over there), but the simple fact that the general public doesn’t (want to?) connect the dots between alt-right, cop gangs, and mercs like the Pinkertons is only one reason that this nation will continue to be slavery based, no matter the cosmetic flourish every 4+ years. 🤌🏽
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Real question: how many since?
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I don’t think this event is in any way comparably to what happened in Tulsa.
littlebluespark@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m sorry, is the crux of your argument to devalue based on the quality of atrocity? 🤢
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
What the police did to the MOVE compound was wrong, but what the MOVE terrorists were doing wasn’t right either.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
We were taught about the Trail of Tears when I was a kid. Is it no longer taught? Wait, I got transferred to a private school in fifth grade. That might be where it came up.