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[quote=DonJuan]I heard it a different way;

That the term cracker came from the CRACK of the whips that went upon the slaves.[/quote:eff79]


meh. I always wonder why Rosewood is never talked aobut more in American history. quite the blood shed.

osewood Reborn recounts the Rosewood Florida massacre of 1923, when an alleged attack on a white woman became the excuse for six days of racial rioting, the destruction of this African American community, and the massacre of an unknown number of residents.

It began on New Years Day 1923, when a white woman claimed that a black man had attacked her. By the end of the day vengeful whites had lynched a man they suspected of helping the attacker escape. Local lawmen did nothing to stop them. By the week's end, hundreds of armed white men had burned black homes to the ground and forced the inhabitants to flee for their lives, killing many of them. All their property was then taken over by whites.

Rosewood's fate was an open secret for six decades. The terrorized survivors were silent, and the public quickly forgot. But in 1992 two survivors of the massacre filed a claim against the state of Florida, and in 1994 the legislature finally awarded survivors and descendants $2 million – the only known case of reparations to black Americans in U.S. history.

Rosewood Reborn is a tale of violence, heroism, horror and yet hope, which connects living history with some of today's most pressing and controversial issues. The conflicts and contradictions in American society that it illustrates remain unresolved. The program is narrated by James Earl Jones, and uses participants' and witnesses' own voices to tell of the community's destruction, and the survivors' path-breaking struggle for justice.

Rosewood Reborn was funded by the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media and the Florida Humanities Council, with additional funding from Public Radio International.


my story was quite as good form my memory as it should be.

too bad no one dresses as John Wayne ventilated him with a Winchester repeater biggrin:

[quote="Short Hand":d54e0][quote=DonJuan][quote="Short Hand":d54e0]where did the term Cracker orginate from ?

-Back in the early 1900 before 1910 in a small back water hick town in Florida called Rosewood a white women was killed. The whitemen blamed it on the Blacks in their shantys down the way. They turned crazy and started on a masscre of Black's. Hunting them down like dogs in the forest killing as many as they could. They cracked up . hence the term cracker.". The funny thing is the real murderer was the Husband who killed his wife. Hence you now know where the term kracker came from. rock:[/quote]

I heard it a different way;

That the term cracker came from the CRACK of the whips that went upon the slaves.[/quote:d54e0]


meh. I always wonder why Rosewood is never talked aobut more in American history. quite the blood shed.[/quote:d54e0]

Actually, they made a movie about it called "Rosewood" back in '97 starring Ving Rhames and John Voigt. It was pretty good.

[url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120036/"]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120036/[/url]

Well we can call them black, so why not white.

Hell...we should ban the words yankee and canuck too then...techically they are derotory terms to residents from that country.

This whole movement to combat PR is PR itself, isnt it?? oOo:

1000 posts, woot!! beer:

[quote="Short Hand":eb3c3] But in 1992 two survivors of the massacre filed a claim against the state of Florida, and in 1994 the legislature finally awarded survivors and descendants $2 million – the only known case of reparations to black Americans in U.S. history. [/quote:eb3c3]

I wonder if I can get reparations for Sherman burning down my great, great grandaddy's house? or for the 1000 acres the Reconstructionists stole from him? I'm sure that antebellum home would be worth alot today and that land now has alot of very expensive homes, etc on it.

Maybe we should pay the Cherokees since we took their land...of course then they would have to pay the Choctaw's, because the Cherokee's took it from them, And then the Choctaw's would have to pay the Creeks and the Creeks would have to pay the ...... oh heck, let's just take all the property in the US and liquidate it and divide it up so that every person has an equal share. Maybe that would finally get these communist bassfish to get off their high horse. ..... hmmm probably not. They'd just find something else to complain about. So in that case, let's just leave it the way it is.

Confederates.

Hoenstly...

Woot.. Colonel has joined the movement!

All i gots to say about the confederates is...

Give it up.

Oh ya... My Great Great Grandfather was Sherman (The Crazy Fool) - hehe, My Great Aunt was the one who donated his Saddle, Sword and other such belonging to the smithsonian.

Ahh.. this post even heralds the return of the Gay Blade!

But stay on topic. This is about fighting political correctness. And very soon (as soon as the domain name resolves on the networks) you can join the fight...


http://www.fightpoliticalcorrectness.com rock:

[quote="The Gay Blade!":69387]Yea, Gran Pappy's house is probably on the same level of signifigance as forced slavery and the deaths that resulted, along with the lynchings, the hangings. Yea. And that casino money sure helps ease some of the Native Americans pain.[/quote:69387]


my brother likes you


*passes note* "do you like him too? check box A for yes, B for no, or C only if he tosses salad" oOo:

Does joining the movement constitute making a sig related to it?