Re: I Found a Picture of Ben Tillman Leaving The Roach Today
Sep 14, 2024, 5:55 PM
We deny, without regard to color, that 'all men are created equal'; it is not true now, and was not true when Jefferson wrote it. As quoted in Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian (1967), by Francis Butler Simkins. Louisiana State University Press. OCLC 1877696, p. 144. How did we recover our liberty? By fraud and violence. We tried to overcome the thirty thousand majority by honest methods, which was a mathematical impossibility. After we had borne these indignities for eight years life became worthless under such conditions. As quoted in "The Question of Race in the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1895" (July 1952), by George B. Tindall. The Journal of Negro History, 37 (3): 277–303. JSTOR 2715494., p. 94. The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that ###### will necessitate our killing a thousand ####### in the South before they learn their place again. Regarding Booker T. Washington's meeting with Theodore Roosevelt, as quoted in Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000), by Stephen Kantrowitz. University of North Carolina Press, p. 259