Feds forcibly removed black occupiers from wildlife refuge in 1979

[SHRED]

A double standard that is disgusting.

Read it and weep.

Feds forcibly removed black occupiers from wildlife refuge in 1979

http://www.oregonlive.com/history/2016/01/oregon_standoff_feds_forcibly.html#incart_gallery

[yeoman6987]

1. No way president carter would allow this

Hopefully a BS story and sourse.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. yes way, this did happen

[yeoman6987]

3. I am sadden.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. This is part of the white supremacy we all need to confront

I posted an analysis piece this morning (not on Oregon, mass incarceration)

http://reportingsandiego.com/2016/01/15/mass-incarceration-and-police-a-long-policy-look/

It took a lot of research, but we have had that double standard at play. It is a bipartisan matter, if that helps.

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. The fact that you last is a real tribute to your skill

I admire it, I really do.

Well done.

[yeoman6987]

9. Have a great weekend!

[handmade34]

5. an important read...

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/7753-black-landowners-fight-to-reclaim-land-taken-by-feds

[hfojvt]

6. fighting for land they lost

that their ancestors were paid for.

Some parts of the story seem badly told.

For example - the government didn't buy some 'uninhabitable land' supposedly because it was owned by rich people. Uh, I just sort of have to wonder, why would they want land that is uninhabitable?

The story sorta reminds me of The Badger Ordinance Works. Which is told a little bit here

http://www.badgerordnancehistory.org/H-C_WhyDoWeNeed.html

Those white people did not like the prices they got paid either. Not sure what has happened to the land now. They were talking about it in 1998, trying to decide what to do with it. It was also said that there were a lot of contamination issues at the site.

One woman mentioned there, Clara was the woman who put my dad through college (perhaps). She was a cousin of my grandmother, and when she died, fairly young and childless, she left a fair sum of money - to her cousin. Money that my grandmother, a college graduate herself, put away and used to put her sons through college.

[mountain grammy]

8. Thank you for posting

this remarkable piece of history that's so very relevant today.