White Strike Worldwide 🪧

Out of fear that local Democrats might try to seize control of the Grant Parish regional government, which was almost evenly split between Black and white citizens, an all-Black militia took control of the local courthouse in April 1873. Soon after, a mob of more than 150 white men, most former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan and the White League, arrived and surrounded the courthouse.

Sir Arthur Keith dismissed science as the surest method to distinguish race; one knows a person’s race because “a single glance, picks out the racial features more certainly than could a band of trained anthropologists.” Keith’s view perfectly captured the view that race must be real, for he saw it all around him, even though science could never establish that reality.

“Being white sucks, but being black is so cool. Black people should rule. White people should fall, every white person who lived and died. I hate you all.”