Those who are questioning some folks' postings about past U.S. massacres -- on natives' lands and in black towns, for example -- should know that these postings are not meant to dismiss the Orlando shootings as insignificant nor to incite a game of "our persecution was worst than yours." The postings infer that the media should stop referring to Orlando as the worst massacre in U.S. history because that claim is open to challenge.The farther we get from the past, the deeper we, Americans, bury it, until we have no memory of it, until it is no longer talked about, until it is declared never to have happened. If we can say this thing did not happen, then we can pretend THOSE PEOPLE VICTIMIZED NEVER EXISTED, NEVER LIVED, AND DON'T MATTER.
It is frustrating and painful knowing you were there and that you made a contribution when the history books don't mention you at all. This rewriting of history has been deliberately done by governments and wealthy classes, and perpetuated by masses of hateful and/or unread people. There is a great need in America to set the historical record straight, and to keep setting it straight, or some people surely will write other people straight out of the story. It has happened more often than it has not.
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/new-orleans-massacre-1866
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