May 22, 2022

TGFM*

 

 The (Mississippi) Senate voted 25 to 9 on Feb. 20, 1922, to ask the federal government to trade some of the World War I debts owed by European countries for a piece of colonial Africa — any part would do — where the government would then ship Mississippi’s Black residents, creating “a final home for the American negro.”

(Full Washington Post story is HERE.)

*Thank God For Mississippi.  They always seem to act in a way that spares Alabama from even more embarrassment.

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