March 8, 2024

WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

…..Last year when I was home….I watched more of the Women’s NCAA March madness games….than the men’s…..because those ladies were “ballin’”…..and one woman who stood out was Caitlin Clark…..and this season the woman’s still got game….recently she set the new scoring record in the NCAA women’s category…..big respect….BUT…..she actually didn’t…..so let’s put this in the CRT….. “We claim what isn’t true” division…..and let me introduce you to….

PEARL MOORE….exactly,…..never heard of her right?….I found this article and I thank my brother Larry for sharing it….. “Records, until broken, withstand the test of time…..Pearl Moore…..was a 5’7” guard who played at Francis Marion during a time where women’s college basketball…..was played under the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW)….. during her collegiate career….Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Pearl Moore scored 4061pts…. after big-named schools moved to the NCAA in the early 1980s and after a federal antitrust lawsuit, the AIAW dissolved, but their records never died…..in the NCAA, Caitlin Clark stands alone at the top of points scored…..while what Clark has done in the women’s game is impressive….we cannot yet say that she owns the all-time record in women’s college basketball history…..because that, still belong to Pearl Moore…..a record that is 45 years old.”…..so history recorders….don’t CRT this…..let’s keep it real…..and here’s something for the CRT “Race Relations” division…..

JOHN HARTFIELD: THE BLACK MAN WHO WAS LYNCHED FOR DATING A WHITE WOMAN IN 1919…..Sit back and relax….because this one is an eye opener….John decided to seek a better life and moved to East St. Louis….what happen there later on in history is another story….but I’ll get to that one day…..anyway,….he eventually returned to Ellisville to visit his white girlfriend….Ruth Meeks….and took a job as a hotel porter in Laurel….racial tension at the time was palpable and interracial relations were met with fierce opposition…..when word got around about the relationship….the white community and a group of white men decided to deal with it…..and accused him of raping Ruth and said she was 18 at the time of the rape….she was actually in her mid-twenties…..so John booked out of town and hid for a while….and the mob chased him for a few weeks….since they were having a hard time finding him…..they called in the cops to join the search…..and they found him….and gave him up to the angry mob of white guys….somehow during the chase John hurt his shoulder….and the ones who hated him were kind enough…to bring him to a white doctor so he could be treated….I guess that was to prolong his life before they could carry out a public lynching…..and that was definitely going to happen because the next day…..this was printed in the newspaper…. “John Hartfield will be lynched by Ellisville mob at 5 o’clock this afternoon”…..Governor Bilbo told everyone one….he was powerless to prevent it…..really nice of him huh?…..anyway,….over 10,000 people showed up for the “Pic-a-nic”…..if you don’t know the under meaning of “Picnic”….you should read what I’ve posted about “The true meaning” before…..anyway,….and an extra 5,000 people from all corners of the surrounding area came to witness the lynching and burning of my man John…..some businesses shut down for the day so their employees could enjoy the moment…..now, on June 26th 1919….John was dragged for his holding cell and hanged from a….tall sweet gum tree…..and if that wasn’t enough….his lifeless body was riddled with bullets….shit didn’t end there….his corpse was mutilated, desecrated…..and pieces of his flesh was sold as souvenirs……and then…..the happy attenders of this festival…..made commemorative postcards of the lynching…..and sent them through the mail…..when all was over…..now the great Governor of the wonderful state of Mississippi….Theodore G. Bilbo finally had something to say…. “This is a white man’s country.…with a white man’s civilization and any dream on the part of the Negro race to share social and political equality will be shattered in the end”…..well, at least we know why Bilbo was powerless to prevent it…..and yes….no one was ever held accountable for his murder…..even though….there were more than…..15,000 witnesses…..this is just one of many stories…..here’s another one for the CRT…. “Thank you for your service” division…..

ISAAC WOODARD…..Was an American soldier and a victim of racial violence….hours after being honorably discharged from the United States Army….he was attacked while still in uniform….by the South Carolina police as he was taking a bus ride home….the attack and his injuries sparked a national outrage….and galvanized the civil rights movement in America….on February 12th, 1946…..Isaac was on a Greyhound Bus traveling from Camp Gordon in Augusta, Georgia….where he had been discharged…..and enroute to rejoin his family in North Carolina….when the bus reached a rest stop just outside Augusta….he asked the bus driver if there was time to use the restroom….the driver acceded to his request after an argument…..the bus later stopped in Batesburg (now Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina)…..and because of their earlier argument….the driver contacted the local police chief Lynwood Shull….who forcibly removed Isaac from the bus….after demanding to see his discharge papers….a number of Batesburg police officers….including the police chief…..took Isaac to a nearby alleyway…..where he was beaten repeatedly with nightsticks….they then took him to the town jail and arrested him for disorderly conduct….accusing him of drinking beer in the back of the bus with other soldiers…..during the course of the night…..Shull beat and blinded Isaac…..who later stated in court that he was beaten for saying “Yes”…..instead of “Yes Sir”…..he also had partial amnesia as a result of his injuries…..Isaac testified that he was punched in his eyes by the police and later repeatedly jabbed in his eyes with a billy club…..newspaper accounts indicate that Isaac’s eyes had been “gouged out” and each globe was ruptured irreparably in the socket….the following morning he was sent before a judge….who found him guilty and fined him fifty dollars….Isaac requested medical assistance….but it took two days for a doctor to be sent to him….he finally ended up in a hospital in Aiken….where he received substandard medical care….three weeks after he was reported missing by his relatives…..he was discovered in that hospital and was immediately rushed to an Army hospital in Spartanburg….where doctors found out both his eyes were damaged beyond repair….due to South Carolina’s reluctance to pursue the case…..President Harry S. Truman ordered a federal investigation….Police Chief Lynwood Shull was indicted and went to trial in a federal court in South Carolina….where he was acquitted by an all-white jury….which was what to be expected in the South back in the day…..my father had joined the U.S. Army to serve his country…..and was stationed at Camp Gordon…..because of what happened to Isaac Woodard….the military brass at Camp Gordon thought it was a good idea to transfer the Colored soldiers to another base….in order to prevent any future incidents like Isaac’s from happening again….the base they were sent to was Fort Dix…..and because of everything you just read…..that’s the reason I was born in……New Jersey!

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