Ami's overly verbose campaign for remodding continues
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1036873
even though I agree with his post in principle, lmao at that conclusion from the "Snow" riot:
ARTHUR BOWEN'S MIDNIGHT RAMBLE was followed by Washington's first race riot, an outbreak of violence that has largely been forgotten.
Pro and anti-slavery forces crystallized during that particular time period and also emerged in Congress in the years following the riot. The electoral map of the U.S. still corresponds roughly to the divisions between the red and blue states to this day.
Nobody gives a shit about the riot then or now (doesn't even have a Wikipedia page, the proof of what things matter and what don't:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots#Nineteenth_century), but it happened at the same times as other things do that coincidentally share similarities with completely different things now.
I like how the Blair Mountain description itself says "16 years later something happened in different industries!" and in the immediate aftermath:
Following the battle, 985 miners were indicted for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, accessory to murder, and treason against the State of West Virginia. Though some were acquitted by sympathetic juries, many were also imprisoned for a number of years, though they were paroled in 1925. It would be Bill Blizzard's trial where the unexploded bomb was used as evidence of the government and companies' brutality, and ultimately resulted in his acquittal.
In the short term, the battle was an overwhelming victory for management. UMW membership plummeted from more than 50,000 miners to approximately 10,000 over the next several years
And best of all is him linking to the Watts riots as evidence of riots contributing to the Civil Rights Movement. When it resulted in absolutely zero action being taken by authorities and was the precursor to the Newark, Detroit, Chicago, D.C., Balitmore and Cleveland riots of 1967-68 that also accomplished nothing. Which like Watts were all notably on the downward slope of the Movement's rise and fall, and Detroit's riots arguably kicked off the white backlash. Although three of the riots started on the same calender date as my birthday...take that as you will...
Lastly, his thread title uses "anarchy" in place of "chaos", more of the bigotry and struggle that me and my brothers in peaceful opposition to the legitimacy of the violence of the state face
