AmeriKKKa 1947
Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them black like him.
One December day in 1947, a group of white men showed up along a stretch of Highway 80 just yards from Bolling’s home and store, where he lived with his wife, Bertha Mae, and their seven young children. The men confronted him on a section of road he had helped lay and shot him seven times — six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun blast to the back. His family rushed from the store to find him lying dead in a ditch.
The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. “He was too successful to be a Negro,” someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time. When Bolling was killed, his family estimates he had as much as $40,000 in the bank and more than $5,000 in assets, about $500,000 in today’s dollars. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as creditors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cattle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty. Bertha Mae found work at a dry cleaner. The older children dropped out of school to help support the family. Within two years, the Bollings fled Lowndes County, fearing for their lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-wealth-gap.html
What you read above was no aberration. Such terrorism against Black Americans was systemic and pervasive throughout AmeriKKKa since the defeat of the treasonous 'Confederacy' in the Civil War which claimed the lives of 2% percent of the entire nations population, which in 2019 would equate to 6,400,000 dead Americans.
White supremacist terrorist mobs in 1921 militarily destroyed an entire prosperous Black community— the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma,— at that time the wealthiest Black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street" because they were "too successful".
When you read the book 100 Years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzburg which is a compilation of newspaper articles chronicling the cac terrorism in-real-time as it occurred, you read about Black people lynched, killed and driven off of their land because oil was discovered on their property or one of their daughters was 'fine' like Halle Berry or a Black son allegedly bumped into a cac woman, or Jack Johnson beat a cac in a professional boxing match; you discern irrefutably that AmeriKKKan cacs are imbued with a pathalogical racial hatred surpassing that of Hitler's Nazi's toward the Ashkenazi Jews and that hatred of Blacks persisted for hundreds of years.
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~~ 100 YEARS OF LYNCHING - by Ralph Ginzburg ~~
Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them black like him.
One December day in 1947, a group of white men showed up along a stretch of Highway 80 just yards from Bolling’s home and store, where he lived with his wife, Bertha Mae, and their seven young children. The men confronted him on a section of road he had helped lay and shot him seven times — six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun blast to the back. His family rushed from the store to find him lying dead in a ditch.
The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. “He was too successful to be a Negro,” someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time. When Bolling was killed, his family estimates he had as much as $40,000 in the bank and more than $5,000 in assets, about $500,000 in today’s dollars. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as creditors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cattle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty. Bertha Mae found work at a dry cleaner. The older children dropped out of school to help support the family. Within two years, the Bollings fled Lowndes County, fearing for their lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-wealth-gap.html
What you read above was no aberration. Such terrorism against Black Americans was systemic and pervasive throughout AmeriKKKa since the defeat of the treasonous 'Confederacy' in the Civil War which claimed the lives of 2% percent of the entire nations population, which in 2019 would equate to 6,400,000 dead Americans.
White supremacist terrorist mobs in 1921 militarily destroyed an entire prosperous Black community— the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma,— at that time the wealthiest Black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall Street" because they were "too successful".
When you read the book 100 Years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzburg which is a compilation of newspaper articles chronicling the cac terrorism in-real-time as it occurred, you read about Black people lynched, killed and driven off of their land because oil was discovered on their property or one of their daughters was 'fine' like Halle Berry or a Black son allegedly bumped into a cac woman, or Jack Johnson beat a cac in a professional boxing match; you discern irrefutably that AmeriKKKan cacs are imbued with a pathalogical racial hatred surpassing that of Hitler's Nazi's toward the Ashkenazi Jews and that hatred of Blacks persisted for hundreds of years.
Read 100 Years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzburg excerpts
GO TO
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