Woke M&Ms

The Proportionally Repressed Anger of Black Americans

Copy under image: “Smouldering body of Missouri lynch victim. A crowd of 9,000 persons stormed the Buchanan County Jail at St. Joseph, Missouri, November 28, 1933 and took Lloyd Warner, negro, from his cell and strung him up to a tree. They then burned his body with gasoline and the photo shows his still smouldering body and a part of the tree limb that he was strung up to.” [Lloyd was accused of attacking a white girl but did not receive constitutional due process rights expected of a U.S. citizen entitled to him because that was reserved only for white citizens on the U.S. in America in the 15 segregated neoslavery (jim crow) states. I find the still smoking body of Lloyd to be a bit more disturbing than the Tyre video, so I kept the image as low quality.]

The campaign was brilliant by Mars because they knew at this point all of the free press they would get from Tucker again. It is somehow ‘great’ to see the vastly irrational ranting of the angry white supremacist male he embodies. For over well 100 years after the Civil War white supremacists like him would get absolutely violent and lynch black Americans at the slightest accusation, disposing of due process rights in the Constitution with the slightest allegation or perceived provocation.

I take Tucker’s disproportional supreme anger and outrage to his M&M manufactured controversy as the core takeaway.

Just yesterday I was reading about the massacre of black Americans started by an accusation against a black man in Memphis that led to white men raiding the black American section of town, going through and slaughtering innocent black Americans in their homes and on the streets. Ida B. Wells had one of her activist friends die in that massacre and began a legendary investigation that led to her booklet “Southern Horrors” being published in 1892. It inspired the first anti-lynching law introduced to Congress by the last black American Congressmen in 1900 before he left the House in 1901. He had seen another insurrection in 1898 of whites who rode into town to slaughter blacks and whites elected to office who were working…