The Salado Creek Massacre’s Place in Black History Month
How the Army’s Commander-in-Chief Disgracefully Slaughtered His Own Black Soldiers
It might be an overreach to name this new white massacre of black Americans as the greatest stain on the government’s history. But I’m going with that feeling for now and naming this white man’s massacre of proud black Americans as the worst one in U.S. History. That is because the US government and its Army, under the direct leadership of the President, slaughtered its own soldiers who went to defend US soldiers. That’s just insanity. It’s also Black American History.
All too often these white massacres of black Americans keep coming to light, and it’s undoubtedly some black American amateur or professional scholars behind the surfacing of the facts and the story into the public consciousness. I actually don’t know who pushed for justice this time, though I would not be surprised if the 19 descendants of those slaughtered brought the case to justice. I’m glad they got their honorable recognition as true Americans, even if it is 117 years later. It’s small reparations, with a pardon from some Biden official, instead of Biden himself, or from the Secretary of Defense showing up to the recognition funeral. But sometimes bravery is needed by the Commander-in-Chief, especially where justice is concerned and righting the wrongs it committed…
