They Built Their America on Our Broken Bodies — Never Forget That
Erasing History While Demanding We “Remember the Alamo”
With various politicians trying and getting rid of DEI programs, including trying to take Black history out of American history, and lying about their own history, white supremacists want us to forget the horrors of “American exceptionalism,” and pretend racist brutality never existed. While doing so they want us to “Remember the Alamo” but want us to forget the Alamo defenders were fighting for slavery. One national case of racist brutality comes to mind, the white supremacist murder of 23-year-old Mack Charles Parker in 1959 in Mississippi.
The Murder of Mack Charles Parker: Brutality Without Justice
Without proof, Parker was accused of the rape of a white woman, a crime that was sure to cause a murderous mob to assemble, and was arrested and held in the Poplarville, Mississippi jail. What happened next would be one of the most brutal murders of a Black man in American history. A deputy sheriff purposefully unlocked the jail cell so that a mob of crazed white supremacists could kidnap Parker from the jail. Parker was dragged by the feet so that his head would bump on the stairs on the way down, leaving a bloody trail. The mob beat him, all without the due process of law, as was established by the 14th Amendment, and which southern bigots refused to obey. Parker was then taken to a bridge and shot, and then his body was weighed down with chains and dumped into the river. According to PBS sources, three days before Parker was to go on trial, “a group of eight to 10 hooded men broke into the Pearl River County Jail with the help of the jailer and dragged Parker from his cell. His body was discovered the following month in Pearl River . . .. According to an FBI report, an autopsy showed Parker had died from “a penetrating wound in the left auricle of the heart.”
The Authorities Were in On It
The FBI knew who the jailer was that was working with the racist mob and was identified as Jewel Alford. The sheriff of Pearl River County, J.P. Walker, was also in on the killing as was other well-known white supremacists. Parker was one of some 40 others that were murdered in the land of the “free and the brave” during this time. I don’t think we want to return America to this or make America into a place that resembles Nazi Germany in 1933. Only a year later, another racist American mob attacked 125 protesters that were peacefully trying to desegregate a white only beach, named “Biloxi Beach, and were brutally beaten with pipes, chains, pool sticks, and baseball bats. All of the took place as law enforcement, who is suppose to serve and protect, just stood there watching and laughing as the horror took place. In fact, the police arrested the protesters instead of the attackers because they were trying to protect the white supremacist laws that the southern states refused to end even though their racist hero, Robert E. Lee was crushed on the battlefield during the Civil War. The struggle did not end and fearless Black Men and women staged another protest in 1963 against segregated beaches. Racists cannot stop a determined people that are unafraid and willing to fight for freedom.
They Want to Erase the Blood, the Chains, and the Truth
They want to remove these historical facts from museums and from classrooms as they try to invent a country that was never about “freedom and justice for all.” White supremacists want us to remember Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, William Travis, Jefferson Davis, and others that supported slavery but want us to forget what they did. It won’t happen!
