Racial Fascism in America (Part 1)
African Americans know fascism
Reconstruction ends, Fascism begins
After the Civil War, after African Americans were finally legally free under U.S. law, after fighting for their own freedom with guns, and whatever weapons they could possess, after all of the American racial bullshit that remains a shadow over this country came and went, then came the backlash. A racial backlash.
A racist fascist backlash in America began right after the war. Lynchings of African people accelerated. African Americans were slowly pushed into second class citizens and smothered beneath violence and terrorism and a reluctant, racist and exhausted nation, that grew weary of the struggle to fix their original human rights crimes against its African free labor force. It was a crime against humanity. Crimes.
It was supposed to be a period of racial integration and an expansion of the American experiment. But it wasn’t. Writers, ezekiel kwaku and jane coaston describe America as a “fascist state” in the period from 1876 to the 1960s before the triumph of civil rights in the face of fierce hatred. The local governments and federal government “enforced an authoritarian regime” upon African people in America. But from 1865–1876, the violence had already started. This was the beginning of…
