Twisted History
400 years
since slaves arrived on the American shore
220 years
since the birth of the Underground Railroad
200 years
since the Missouri Compromise
163 years
since Dred Scott
159 years
since the inception of the Civil War
157 years
since the Emancipation Proclamation
156 years
since the burning of Atlanta
155 years
since the 13th Amendment
154 years
since Lincoln’s assassination
154 years
since the birth of the KKK
153 years
since reconstruction
150 years
since the dawn of Jim Crow
124 years
since Plessy V. Ferguson
99 years
since the Tulsa Massacre
83 years
since the death of Bessie Smith
81 years
since Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit
75 years
since the Civil Rights Act
65 years
since the lynching of Emmett Till
56 years
since Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddamn
55 years
since the killing of Malcolm X
55 years
since the summer of Watts
52 years
since the assassination of the King
51 years
since the Hampton and Clark
29 years
since Rodney King
7 years
since the nullification of Voting Rights
7 years
since Black Lives Matter
6 years
since the murder of Michael Brown
6 years
since Tamar Rice and Eric Garner
5 years
since Jamar Clark
4 years
since Philando Castile
3 years
since Charlottesville
2 years
since Botham Jean
1 year
since Danquirs Franklin
4 months
since Ahmaud Arberi
3 months
since Breonna Taylor
2 months
since Sean Reed
1 month
since George Floyd
1 day
since Rayshard Brooks
After 400
years of twisted history
False
promises exploitation
And
brutality
Atlanta
burns
America wonders
why
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