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I did not realize how blatant the racism was until recently when I was finding articles online in newspapers.com about ancestors. There was a murder in 1900 of a man married to a distantly relative of mine. He was a policeman and was arresting a black man for a $6 debt. The black man went back into his house and got his rifle and shot the cop. (He'd tried to reason with the cop about the arrest but the cop was adamant about taking him in.) He escaped a jail in Perth Amboy but a lot of white citizens went after him. There was a bounty on him. He escaped to Virginia and some of the bounty hunters went after him and shot him and let him bleed out. The way the article was written was assuming the black man was guilty and praised the cop for his career. A story about it written many years later put a different spin on it. I am not explaining this very well, but it struck a chord with me in light of recent events of cops shooting Black men and women. I posted the article to facebook. I don't think anyone noticed it though.
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