Black History Should Not Be Labeled with White Euphemisms

The Ouachita Plan and Insurrectionary Period

In the first issue of The Caucasian, the White League backed by Democrats wrote: its first issue: “the leading political principle of the negro is his unconquerable hatred of the white race”

I’ve encountered so many of these white supremacist post-Civil War plans that it’s almost hard to keep track. I liked this one, not because it was a “good plan,” nor because of its execution. It ended as usual in groups of white men killing blacks. But for its political significance. It showed that in 1888, in an article I had written about from this academic discovery of “this hidden piece of history,” the Purge was real, and the white murders of blacks were all too real. But it is really what this stood for: white insurrection of democracy by killing voters.

It boggles my mind why this month of state-sponsored killing before the election isn’t more prominent in Black American history. However, it certainly won’t make it into history books, and what it represents is “worse” than DEI and CRT (not the real Critical Race Theory but the boogeyman three-letter acronym cooked up in 2022 and outlawed in 2025 by Trump’s executive order). The reason is that these roving groups of white murderers were politically driven to win the election. The Governor of Louisiana gave them the green light. His reasoning was simple: the more dead black Republican voters and organizers, the fewer votes and the fewer chances the Republican candidate would win in those…