Discussion: What We Talk About When We Talk About 'Race Riots'

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One of the worst of these incidents happened in Elaine, Arkansas.

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Thanks for the article. It’s indicative of racist America that when Blacks rebel it’s called a “race riot,” but when whites attack it’s often not, although one would think the term applies particularly to the latter.

As for the report that Wilmington was the only coup in U.S. history, that’s not true. When President Ronald Reagan was shot in the early '80s, his chief of staff Alexander Haig staged a coup, assuming the Presidency, even though the order of succession called for the Vice President to assume it. Bush was available and within hours called Haig out publicly about it.

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Thanks for the comment and correction–totally agree about Haig, and I should have written “only successful coup in American history” instead.

Thanks,
Ben

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Here’s a interview by a local news station they everybody should see:

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