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Members of the Knights of Labor were leaders of the organized movement against Chinese workers in Seattle. … In September 1885, [KoL organizer Daniel] Cronin warned Seattle’s workers that riot and bloodshed would follow during the winter if the Chinese were not removed. It was Cronin and the leadership of the Knights of Labor that planned for the systematic expulsion of Seattle’s Chinese; the group organized a territorial anti-Chinese congress and declared that all Chinese must leave Seattle by November 1, 1885. …

On February 7, 1886, a mob rounded up Seattle’s Chinese and took them to where ships were waiting to transport them away. The police made a futile attempt to protect the Chinese but the mob was insatiable and continued to riot accordingly. The governor of Washington, Watson Squire, ordered that the ship not be allowed to leave the dock. The next morning more than 350 Chinese gathered at the shore to await the next ship for San Francisco, due in six days. 200 of the Chinese embarked for San Francisco on the first ship, leaving some 150 others on shore, stranded.

When the Home Guards tried to get the throng of Chinese workers to return to their homes, the crowd rioted and the deputies fired into the crowd; one person was killed and four others wounded. … The state militia and the federal troops eventually assisted in quelling the riot. Eventually passions in Seattle cooled, as they did elsewhere, as most of the Chinese immigrants ended up departing. Congress paid $276,619.15 to the Chinese government in compensation for the rioting, but the actual victims never saw any such compensation.

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313 Black People Murdered by the Police/Law Enforecement in 2012

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Youth Confinement by Race (rate per 100,000). To learn more, download the KIDS COUNT Data Snapshot on youth incarceration from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

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A Port Canaveral police sergeant was fired Friday after an internal investigation showed he offered other officers a target resembling Trayvon Martin to use for shooting practice.

Sgt. Ron King, a firearms instructor and two-year veteran of the force, offered the target of a hoodie-wearing figure at the range near Cocoa during the first week of April, Rosalind Harvey, a port spokeswoman, said Saturday.

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And don’t forget chattel slavery and ethnic cleansing.

It’s the year 2013 and some parts of the South continue to have segregated proms. The homecoming queen at Wilcox County High School was not allowed to go to the white prom because she’s Black.

Again, the year is 2013.

L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz

Jackson also led the first Seminole War.  Florida was still under the control of the Spanish, but their settler colonial efforts were inactive.  Many Indians whose lands had been taken in the South, such as the Creeks, fled for refuge in the Florida swamplands.  The Seminoles were taking in runaway slaves. Jackson was charged with eliminating this threat and lead a bloody campaign, burning villages and destroying food supplies. He urged that, “Seminole women and children be tracked down and ‘captured or destroyed.’”  Victoriously he wrote to his wife, “I think I may say that the Indian war is at an end for the present, the enemy is scattered over the whole face of the earth, and at least one half must starve and die with disease.”

As early as this April, Yale plans to welcome a training center for interrogators to its campus. The center’s primary goal would be to coach U.S. Special Forces on interviewing tactics designed to detect lies. Charles Morgan III, a professor of psychiatry who will head the project, calls these tactics “people skills.” These techniques would be honed using New Haven’s immigrant community as subjects. Morgan hopes that by having soldiers practice their newly acquired techniques on “someone they can’t necessarily identify with” (read: someone who is not white), they’ll be better prepared to do ‘the real thing’ abroad.

Reminder that 1/4 of all US presidents to date personally owned slaves.

Thomas Jefferson gave his daughter 25 slaves as a wedding present.