The racist history of the 'crisis actor' attacks on Parkland school shooting survivors

[applegrove]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/retropolis/wp/2018/02/23/the-racist-roots-of-the-crisis-actors-label/?__twitter_impression=true

By Michael E. Miller at the Washington Post

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The year was 1957.

Sixty-one years before teens at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., would survive a mass shooting only to be labeled “crisis actors,” the nine African American teens who braved racist crowds to enroll in Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas were also accused of being impostors.

False rumors that the Little Rock Nine were paid protesters even forced the NAACP to issue a statement condemning the stories as “pure propaganda.” The students were not, in fact, “imported” from the North, said the NAACP’s Clarence A. Laws, but rather the children of local residents, including veterans.

When Princeton history professor Kevin M. Kruse pointed out the parallel between Parkland and Little Rock earlier this week, his tweet went viral.

“It’s funny,” Kruse told The Washington Post on Thursday. “I’m teaching a class right now that does deep dives into three historical moments as a way to teach students how to use documents, and the first one we’re doing is on Little Rock. … So when the ‘these students must be paid’ thing came up in the news, it took me a day and then I was like, wait a minute, I just read about this.”


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[struggle4progress]

1. The rightwing has no new ideas but do have a very old grabbag of dirty tricks

[applegrove]

2. Exactly.

[Canoe52]

4. +1

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. So then, always and forever Deplorables?

[murielm99]

5. The same thing is being done with

all those accusations that anyone who protests is being paid by Soros.

I joke around all the time about how I am still waiting for my check.