Angelo Herndon (1913 - 1997) was a black communist labor leader convicted of insurrection after attempting to organize black and white workers in Atlanta, Georgia. He addressed the court on this day in 1933, stating “You cannot kill the working class”. After nearly 1,000 unemployed workers, both black and white, demonstrated at the Atlanta federal courthouse on June 30th, 1932, local officials began to monitor known and suspected radicals. On July 11th, Herndon, an active labor organizer in the area, was arrested while checking on his mail. A few days later his hotel room was searched, and Communist Party publications were found. Herndon was charged with insurrection under a Georgia Reconstruction era law. His case went to the Supreme Court twice, and Herndon was freed when the insurrection charge was finally ruled unconstitutional in 1937. Here is an excerpt of what Herndon said to the court on January 16th, 1933, at 19 years of age: “You may do what you will with Angelo Herndon. You may indict him. You may put him in jail. But there will come thousands of Angelo Herndons. If you really want to do anything about the case, you must go out and indict the social system. But this you will not do, for your role is to defend the system under which the toiling masses are robbed and oppressed… You may succeed in killing one, two, even a score of working-class organizers. But you cannot kill the working class.”
Having a shit day
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Having a shit day hi
They didn’t let black people vote till like 20 years after Jackie Robinson made his MLB debut lol this country is so profoundly evil that it’s unironically funny that people try to defend it
I just got @WhoaSlowDownMaurice with a sugon deez nutts :farquaad-point:
Doomer this ,bloomer that. What if it was dublooner and we wereall pirates
Ahoy, scallywags! We be about t’ set sail t’ go plunder doubloons ‘n rum from the British! All those ready t’ come aboard, say “Aye!”
On our vessel, we’ve got some great crewmates, includin’:
Cap’n Stalin, the most famous pirate cap’n on the Seven Seas! Saved us all from the mightiest threat in the world by his leadership! Some say his only flaw be that he didn’ go far enough!
Quartermaster Lenin, who set the stage ‘n gave us all the first real example o’ the pirate society we wish t’ spread around the world! Be warned: don’t natter t’ 'im about Kautsy!
First Mate Marx, who showed us that a better world be possible! We all owe so much t’ ‘im, but he’ll jabber on about "yards o’ sailcloth" if ye let 'im!
When ye’re ready, all aboard!
Jesus christ, a shitty centre-right politician over here who’s been accused of grooming a minor did a fucking gaming livestream and while googling graphics cards his search bar auto completed to a “extremly painful anal amateur reluctant teen seduced” video.
This guy worked as a fucking IT consultant and webmaster for his party yet he won’t clear his search history or use incognito mode.
