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Results of 1896 and for two years went all over the state said we must have a violent insurrection and sent that message out over the country to say this is how we take our country back. >> you're delivering the eulogy today. what will your message be? >> in this sense the unit hey h to be why did the deaths happen? 1898, by the way, this was more people killed per capita than killed on 9/11. i also want to talk about is how the blood of those people still speaks to us today, and we've got to remember this history, because look at the trends today. the lies about voting. the racist insurrectio...

Hofileña: Brief overview of Negrense 1898 uprising (2)

Historian said black folks stood to gain theory rights through the falling out of white men and then lose it to reconciliation of white men. you think about the violence that happened. clinton mississippi, thousands of black republicans and their families gathered talking about running for political office and then suddenly attacked by white democrats. and then for days, murder and mayhem and the history then is written that black people rioted. this is before the massacre of 1898 in wilmington where you had a coup, red shirts took over governments in the name of this is our america, right? we...

Happened in the u.s. capitol, that's for sure, but the wilmington massacre and coup of 1898 in north carolina and many others like it, that happens to be one of the most egregious, and one of the most violent, that too was a situation where the white supremacist leaders of that movement said they would protest killing 60 people to take over the north carolina government. the real insurrection they said had been reconstruction and the ways in which black people managed to create a fledgling kind of new equality and actually get elected to office. we've been here before, but this is a very serio...

Hofileña: Brief overview of Negrense 1898 uprising against Spain (1)