You’re not wrong, in fact you’re more than just simply correct but absolutely so. The silence is demeaning to the obvious threats, and committing a coup or insurrection should treasonous. Every single person tried did not do what they did out of ignorance but out of willful attack.
Unfortunately, this domestic white terrorism is not new and typically went unpunished. The white supremacist politicians used to openly brag about their violence against blacks and Afro being brazen they were rewarded with political office. Governor and U.S. Senator Tillman famously boasted “we shot negroes and stuffed ballot boxes.” The takeover, by fraud and terror, of South Carolina's government from when he started literally massacring black Americans in 1876 and going until 1901, was what the white supremacists as the "Redemption". The massacres were not figurative, he and his men shot black National guardsmen among others, killing about a hundred or so total, in two infamous murder sprees. This U.S senator in his recollections with his militia buddies in 1909, waxed poetically about their slaughter (which to him weren’t crimes but defense of their heritage): “the moon high in the heavens looked down peacefully on the deserted town and dead negroes, whose lives had been offered up as a sacrifice to the fanatical teachings and fiendish hate of those who sought to substitute the rule of the African for that of the Caucasian.””
That’s just an example of the typical threats against Northern interference of the one-party rule that took place in the South. Congressman Jim Eastland in the early 1940s (and later Senator Eastland who gave his endorsement to Jimmy Carter in 1976), when shooting down a civil rights bill that would have allowed black soldier to vote nationally while overseas, said “we will control the mechanisms of white supremacy throughout eternity.” Oh, and he also owned a real life working cotton plantation with black “sharecroppers” (blacks who lived in his dilapidated shacks with no water or electricity who picked his cotton six days a week and charged payday loan rates to shop in his company platform store).
Yes, there’s a ton more example or great U.S. Senators and congressmen threatening the North to stop civil rights. In the twentieth century, not the nineteen. Eastland endorsed Carter. Biden converted to white supremacy according to U.S. Senator Jessie Helms at least, who thanked Biden for “seeing the light” of white supremacy, switching sides in the school integration debate using bussing in the 70s. Biden abandoned the only black U.S. senator, the face of integration, to join staunch and open segregationist Helms and Thurmond (you can Google the famous buddy-buddy picture of Biden with Thurmond). Senator Thurmond threatened to secede, vowed in the first draft of The Southern Manifesto of 1958 never to integrate or follow the Supreme Court Brown decision. When they tried to integrate, Biden joined them, helping to gut a main part of the 1964 Civil Rights bill MLK and all fought for.
The Supreme Court gutted the main part of the 1965 Voting Rights Bill in 2013. Together, both historic Civil Rights bills are just scraps of what they were, thanks to these government elected power people in both parties. Today, Halloween 2022, the Supreme Court met to hear arguments about gutting affirmative action, which will decrease with certainty black American enrollment at colleges.
But there’s no Civil Rights movement in the offing to reverse these relentless force of these supremacists who have been fighting your inalienable rights and against equality for not just for the 50 years overturning Roe, but 150 years since the massacres of black national guardsman in 1876. A Civil War? It looks to me the supremacists have almost won.
