Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office

They did cement too. The small town I grew up in had a beautiful community swimming pool, but the racist bastards who ran the city  chose to fill it with cement rather than have to share it with people of color.  There was a rash of kids drowning about ten years later, because there wasn’t a place for them to learn how to swim safely, something that might be a good idea considering the town was built along a swift river, with a smaller river running right through it.  So finally in the 80’s they added an indoor pool to the community high school that could be used year round. The town was 99.99% white. There were less than 10 POC in the entire freaking town when they decided to fill in the pool.  They denied 10,000 people access to a community pool because 10 POC might be able to use it. 

Razor blade slides and salt and vinegar swimming pools

Muriatic. Because in very dilute amounts, muriatic acid is an accepted chemical for pool maintenance. Calcium hypochlorite, a solid chlorine compound that is a nice easy way to add chlorine to the pool, also makes it basic-the acid can balance it again. Dump a gallon of concentrate straight into a well chlorinated pool, however, and you get a few minutes of choking chlorine gas off the point of impact. Unlike filling in the pool with concrete, of course, once you have driven off the unwelcome it's a simple matter to add more cal hypo to replace the chlorine you turned into a weapon.

That was the 1960s trend

Lies. It was because of nasty lies.

It's about saying FU to police accountability. Who do you think is going to put effort towards rooting out police corruption? The dude who has been in office for awhile and hasn't done these things, or the guy who lost 30 years of his life to it?  I mentioned the swimming pool thing because this is a public service that was being denied, and once access to it is allowed it is destroyed so it can't ever be used. This also is not a random phenomenon, republicans in recent years are notorious for dismantling aspects of government when they lose an election. 

Is....is that possible?

what, are they gonna lose their grasp of object permanence?

They're actively making peaceful revolution impossible.

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Woah there, don’t let my great home state of Alabama get jealous it’s being left out of the “worst human ethics” race

It’s worse than most people would think. The judicial system is bananas levels of racist.

Louisiana had some of the worst racial massacres in US history. There was the New Orleans massacre in 1866 at Mechanics Hall, the Opelousas Massacre in 1868, the Coldax Massacre in 1873, and more. The 1866 massacre was when a mob of white rioters attacked a peaceful demonstration by black freedmen. Officially, there were 38 dead and 119 wounded, of whom 34 dead and 113 wounded were black men. Unofficially, the results were estimated to be higher, with some saying 40 to 50 were killed, others go as high as 200. The Opelousas massacre has a wide variety of estimated deaths, but its said between 150 and 300 blacks were killed, along with a few dozen whites. Black people were lynched for weeks after the event. The Colfax Massacre had estimates between 62 and 153 black men killed, they were outright murdered when they surrendered to a white force of former Confederate soldiers and the Ku Klux Klan. Most were killed immediately after surrendering, but others were murdered later that night. Black republicans were worried that white democrats would use force to take control of Colfax, so a group of them held out in tnelmhe local courthouse to stop that. The whites started spreading rumors of atrocities by the black men (there were none) and saying that the black men were going to kill all of the white men and take the white women for themselves. This attracted white volunteers to Grant Parish (where Colfax is). There were 300 white men with rifles and horses, and they gave the blackened inside the courthouse thirty minutes to leave, and after the time was up, started shooting. Eventually, the blackened raised the white flag and surrendered, were ordered to throw down their weapons and leave, and the whites subsequently massacred the surrendering men. That doesn't cover the Battle of Liberty Place in New Orleans in 1874, where there was an Insurrection by the Crescent White League against the reconstruction era state government. 5,000 members of the White League fought against an outnumbered and racially integrated New Orleans Metropolitan Police and state milita (they had 3,500 men). The insurgents held the armory, statehouse, and downtown for three days before federal troops arrived. It was a result of a contested election in 1872, between democrat John McEnery and Republican William Kellog; both claimed victory. There were multiple instances of violence related to this election, and the earlier mentioned Colfax Massacre was an earlier instance. In 1891, the city of New Orleans erected the Battle of Liberty Place Monument. This was an inscription added in 1932: "McEnery and Penn having been elected governor and lieutenant-governor by the white people, were duly installed by this overthrow of carpetbag government, ousting the usurpers, Governor Kellogg (white) and Lieutenant-Governor Antoine (colored). United States troops took over the state government and reinstated the usurpers but the national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state." The Monument was removed in 1993. And there were lynching all over the state of course. And naturally any black schools or infrastructure did not receive state funds. For instance stance, when Huey Long started having the government provide free textbooks to Louisiana schools, he had to leave out black schools, as they would have killed all support for the measure.

Give that shit back to the French.

Yes, they were the poster child of it.

Say what you will about Long, but he improved roads, built Charity Hospital to serve the poor, provided text books to school kids and sued the timber and oil companies that were raping the state lands while giving little or nothing back. The poor loved him still well into the 1970s when I was a kid.

Every officer, every statue, every uniform, every flag.

I'd like to speak to the dev who made our air and food holes the same one, please.

And if they did, here comes the drones.

Name me just one president and his cabinet/administration in the history of the United States that has intentionally created comparable global and domestic social, economic, diplomatic, trade, and financial disruption and chaos, and with such blatant amoral grift and extortion, on a self-proclaimed platform of neochristian anti-democracy. US federal governance has never been this corrupt, depraved, and destructive, let alone "always."

Not to mention the other group that didn’t appreciate people showing up in a boat with a flag claiming this land and that land…

I would say then poorly written Articles 2, 3, 5, and Amendments 2 and 7. And let us not forget Amendment 13, that’s a classic. It’s almost like they had a greed motivated idea and then face planted the landing