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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2024-04-25 17:36:20

Along with the police violence (look at the sheer number of bullets sprayed into that dormitory!), racism, SCOTUS nonsense, and the general lack of historical coverage (people know about Kent State, but not this) - there's a #SafeStreets/#BanCars angle here too.
50 years later, things truly have not changed much.

In the months leading up to May 1970, Jackson State students staged a series of protests over their treatment at the hands of white motorists speeding through campus on John R. Lynch Street. Those white drivers were notorious for shouting racial epithets, throwing things from their cars, accelerating towards students crossing the street, and hitting at least one student. By the late-1960s, the tenor of these protests was more aligned with the burgeoning Black Power Movement than the non-viol…

Sally Strange (@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe)
Attached: 2 images Since people are talking about Kent State, Ohio, 1970, it's a good time to talk about Jackson State, Mississippi, 1970. Similar situation, except there was no active protest, just a bunch of students hanging out. The mayor of Jackson declared a riot and called in the pigs. Someone threw a glass bottle, not at the pigs, but they still opened fire. Phillip Gibbs, a student at Jackson State, and James Green, a high school student who was walking home from his job, were murder…