The Crispus Attucks Anomaly

Ok. Given today, I’ll share another saved “anomaly” from my notes taken during “lockdown” reading.

The event that sparked the Boston massacre (and the American Revolution) was that British soldiers did a “police brutality” fatality supercombo on a colonist right?

Well that “colonist” was a BLACK sailor by the name of Crispus Attucks.

So let’s use our imagination to role-play this one:

We are expected to believe…

that a bar-brawl, riot, then massacre broke out because a buncha “racists” came to the defense of a Black man against the British? 🤔

Then I kept reading and apparently the story changed.

He wasn’t a “black sailor” he was actually a slave…

ok, so the racists were mad that the British killed their “property”!?

…then I kept reading. And found NO MENTION of him being a slave in the next morning’s paper.

Also, if he WAS a slave, why was he buried at Granary Burying Ground w Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere et al?

Was it before America had invented segregated graveyards?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granary_B…

I thought it only got MORE racist the further back in time you went?

So let me get this straight…

  • EXTREMELY racist Colonial America started a war with other White people over the death of one Black Man
  • But that black man was a slave (we’re taught)
  • even though the newspapers don’t mention he was a slave
  • EXTREMELY racist Colonial America ALSO buried this black man next to white luminaries of American History.

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Just another historical “anomaly” I guess.

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