Meet Roy Cooper. He is the candidate the North Carolina Democrat Party chose to run for governor in 2016.
Why? Because he's a good old boy and not unlike the Democrats who attended the Wilmington Massacre of 1898, burning down the black-owned newspaper and killing successful black Republican businessmen. Wilmington had been a success for Republican African Americans. The Democrats hated the success of those blacks "who hadn't learned their place." They forced 2,000 to leave their homes and businesses for their lives.
"Wilmington sustained a complex, wealthy, society for all races, with African Americans holding elected office and working in professional and mid-range occupations vital to the economy." - NCPedia
The attack was so successful that North Carolina would be owned by the Democrat Party until 2012, keeping control for over 114 YEARS! In fact the Democrats would throw the incident into the faces of blacks when in the 1960s the party would partially name its state fund raisers after one of the white supremacist that had cheered on the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. His name was Charles Aycock, and they kept it for over 40 years until 2012.
If the Democrat Party, the party of the KKK, had left Wilmington alone to find its own destiny, it could have been a center for the success of the black culture today. And America could have had a different president from the one elected in 2008, who dissed the America's national anthem by putting his hands over his crotch . . . his junk . . . during its playing at an Iowa fund raiser while a candidate for president of the United States.
Now Roy Cooper and the Democrat Party of North Carolina want to again "own the state" politically as it did since the massacre of 1898, setting their party right again with their "proud" history.
 |
| North Carolina Good-Old-Boy Democrat Attorney General Roy Cooper |
| Graphic Source: Alchetron |
|
Did you recognized the name Roy Cooper, the one who is running ad campaigns today about his mother needing to be proud of North Carolina's education system?
If you didn't, Roy Cooper is the Democrat-elected Attorney General of North Carolina who protected another Democrat at all cost, Mike Nifong, in the corrupted Duke laCrosse case.
To remind you, here is an overview if you forgot the details.
"Michael Byron 'Mike' Nifong (born September 14, 1950) is now a disbarred North Carolina attorney. He was the district attorney for Durham County, North Carolina (the state's 14th Prosecutorial District) but was removed, disbarred and jailed following court findings concerning his conduct in the Duke lacrosse case.
Several criminal justice bills passed by the North Carolina legislature later that same year are believed to have been generated by Nifong's actions in the Duke lacrosse case [and Cooper's failure to protect citizens of North Carolina.]"
Roy Cooper personally protected this North Carolina district attorney until the story of Cooper's refusal to serve justice on behalf of the people of North Carolina reached around the world. It showed everyone what an incompetent state official looked like. Cooper protected the party and ignored the Duke lacrosse boys' civil rights, causing their parents to spend huge amounts of money to defend their sons.
But it doesn't end there. Cecil Bothwell, a liberal ‘post-theist,’ won a seat on Asheville, North Carolina, City Council in 2009 and refused to put his hand on the Bible when taking office.
In his book Bothwell called the Grahams of North Carolina the God Of War and any baby in its mother's womb, a parasite.
It's exactly what one would expect from an Obama supporter. Bothwell said he would obey the law, but he didn't, instead refusing to do what was on the books to take office.
And who was the attorney general that would not enforce the law for this Democrat? You guessed it, Good old boy, Roy Cooper.
And it still doesn't end there! The state of North Carolina does not allow women to be exhibitionists in public, restricting them from walking around naked. However, Asheville, North Carolina, has no law and a perfect place if someone from another state would like to watch women walk through town topless.
And so along came an adult clown from Huntsville, Alabama, who decided, since he could not watch naked women in his state, he would come to Western North Carolina to "expose" his desires there.
And what did Roy Cooper do to defend this North Carolina state law in Asheville, one of the most liberal progressive cities in America run by Democrats? He did what he has always done to defend the law. Nothing!
"The Wilmington Riot of 1898 was not an act of spontaneous violence. The events of November 10, 1898, were the result of a long-range campaign strategy by Democratic Party leaders to regain political control of Wilmington—at that time state’s most populous city—and North Carolina in the name of white supremacy.
In 1894, a Populist and Republican coalition known as Fusionists had won control of the General Assembly and, in 1896, Daniel Russell, the state’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction, was elected. Fusionists made sweeping changes to Wilmington’s charter and state government in favor of African Americans and middle class whites.
Wilmington sustained a complex, wealthy, society for all races, with African Americans holding elected office and working in professional and mid-range occupations vital to the economy.
The Democratic Party’s 1898 campaign was led by Furnifold Simmons, who employed a three-prong strategy to win the election: men who could write, speak, and 'ride.' Men who could write generated propaganda for newspapers.
Men such as Alfred M. Waddell and future governor Charles B. Aycock gave fiery speeches to inflame white voters. Men who could ride, known as Red Shirts, intimidated blacks and forced whites to vote for Democratic Party candidates. Democrats from across the state took special interest in securing victory in Wilmington. A group of white businessmen, called the “Secret Nine,” planned to retake control of local government and developed a citywide plan of action.
"The Democratic legislature overturned most Fusionist policies and placed control over county governments in Raleigh. New election laws limited Republican power in the 1900 election. Democrats controlled local and statewide affairs for the next seventy years after victory in 1898."
An editorial by Alex Manly, editor of the Wilmington Record, the city’s African American newspaper became a touchstone of the campaign. Manly’s article challenged white concepts of interracial relationships, and it became a Democratic tool to further anger whites.
Because their campaign was so successful, Democrats won the election in Wilmington and across the state. The next day a group of Wilmington whites passed a series of resolutions requiring Alex Manly to leave the city and close his paper, and calling for the resignations of the mayor and chief of police.
A committee led by Waddell was selected to implement the resolutions, called the White Declaration of Independence. The committee presented its demands to a Committee of Colored Citizens (CCC)—prominent local African Americans—and required compliance by the next morning, November 10, 1898.
Waddell met a crowd of men at the Wilmington Light Infantry (WLI) Armory the morning of the tenth. Delayed response from the CCC and growing tensions enabled Wilmington Light Infantry Armory Waddell to organize as many as 2,000 whites to march on the Record printing office, where they broke in and burned the building.
By 11:00 a.m., violence had broken out across town at an intersection where groups of blacks and whites argued. Shots rang out and several black men fell dead or wounded—each side claimed the first shot was fired by the other.
During the ensuing rioting, Waddell and others worked to overthrow the municipal government; in essence, they staged a coup d’etat.. By late afternoon, elected officials had been forced to resign and were replaced by men selected by leading Democrats. Waddell was elected mayor by the newly seated board of aldermen.
Prominent African Americans and white Republicans were banished from the city over the next days. Besides the primary target of Alex Manly, men selected for banishment fit into three categories: African American leaders who were open opponents to white supremacy, successful African American businessmen, and whites who benefited politically from African American voting support. No official count of dead can be ascertained due to a lack of records – at least 14 and perhaps as many as 60 men were murdered.
State and federal leaders failed to react to the violence in Wilmington. No federal troops were sent because President William McKinley received no request for assistance from Governor Russell. The U.S. Attorney General’s Office investigated, but the files were closed in 1900 with no indictments. African Americans nationwide rallied to the cause of Wilmington’s blacks and tried to pressure President McKinley into action.
Democrats solidified their control over city government through a new city charter in January 1899. Waddell and the board of aldermen were officially elected in March 1899 with no Republican resistance. The new legislature enacted the state’s first Jim Crow legislation regarding the separation of races in train passenger cars. A new suffrage amendment that disfranchised black voters was added to the state constitution by voters in 1900.
The Democratic legislature overturned most Fusionist policies and placed control over county governments in Raleigh. New election laws limited Republican power in the 1900 election. Democrats controlled local and statewide affairs for the next seventy years after victory in 1898.
Inside Wilmington, out-migration following the violence negatively affected the ability of African Americans to recover. Black property owners were a minority of the overall black population before the riot, and property owners were more likely to remain in the city.
An African American collective narrative developed to recall the riot and place limits on black/white relationships for future generations. White narratives claimed that the violence was necessary to restore order, and their narrative was perpetuated by most historians.
Wilmington marked a new epoch in the history of violent race relations in the U.S. Several other high profile riots followed Wilmington, most notably Atlanta (1906), Tulsa (1921), and Rosewood (1923). All four communities dealt with the aftermath of their riots differently.
Whites in Tulsa and Atlanta addressed the causes and some effects of violence and destruction soon after their events; Wilmington whites provided compensation only for the loss of the building housing Manly’s press."
