Boston Massacre: great moments in American history

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Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

if �boston� sounds familiar, it�s because a prominent city in new england was later named after the massacre to honor the victims

# ? Mar 5, 2023 20:18

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 13:41

Mulva: Sep 13, 2011; It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

Nooner posted:

Can we throw in Boston also?

You can try bitch.

# ? Mar 5, 2023 20:27

TrashMammal: Nov 10, 2022

Many historians disagree over if it was a massacre at all or just propaganda from a bunch of literal colonists and slaveowners.

# ? Mar 5, 2023 20:34

BAGS FLY AT NOON: Apr 6, 2011; A Soft Nylon Bag

I like Boston.

It�s the people that are the problem.

# ? Mar 5, 2023 23:36

Animal-Mother: Feb 14, 2012; RABBIT RABBIT
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even back then, boston was able to roll out a fat irish police commissioner to say "these were good cawps, just trying to do their jawbs"

# ? Mar 6, 2023 03:52

Treecko: Apr 23, 2008; The Official Demon Girl
Boss of 2022!

Boston race bomber

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:06

Toxic Mental: Jun 1, 2019

RIP to all the lives lost on Fhloston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9DtLUv5Hrc

# ? Mar 6, 2023 04:11

Treecko: Apr 23, 2008; The Official Demon Girl
Boss of 2022!

Boston Willis

# ? Mar 6, 2023 12:20

skasion: Feb 13, 2012; Why don't you perform zazen, facing a wall?

Animal-Mother posted:

even back then, boston was able to roll out a fat irish police commissioner to say "these were good cawps, just trying to do their jawbs"

Yeah and a cringing cop apologist to get them off in court, who later became president of the U.S. lmao

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Adams told the jury to look beyond the fact that the soldiers were British. He referred to the crowd that had provoked the soldiers as "a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes, and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish Jack Tarrs" (sailors). He then stated, "And why we should scruple to call such a set of people a mob, I can't conceive, unless the name is too respectable for them. The sun is not about to stand still or go out, nor the rivers to dry up because there was a mob in Boston on the 5th of March that attacked a party of soldiers."

Adams also described the former slave Crispus Attucks, saying "his very look was enough to terrify any person" and that "with one hand [he] took hold of a bayonet, and with the other knocked the man down." However, two witnesses contradict this statement, testifying that Attucks was 12�15 feet (3.7�4.6 m) away from the soldiers when they began firing, too far away to take hold of a bayonet. Adams stated that it was Attucks' behavior that, "in all probability, the dreadful carnage of that night is chiefly to be ascribed." He argued that the soldiers had the legal right to fight back against the mob and so were innocent. If they were provoked but not endangered, he argued, they were at most guilty of manslaughter.

# ? Mar 6, 2023 20:28

Mr. Crow: May 22, 2008; Snap City mayor for life

To be fair I would both kill and be killed to avoid being British

# ? Mar 6, 2023 20:37

Colonel Cancer: Sep 26, 2015; Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon

I'm a saucy boy and an outlandish sailor

# ? Mar 6, 2023 20:44

Dandywalken: Feb 11, 2014

Colonel Cancer posted:

I'm a saucy boy and an outlandish sailor

# ? Mar 6, 2023 20:51

Sophy Wackles: Dec 17, 2000; > access main security grid
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Crispus Attucks and the saucy boys :c00l:

# ? Mar 6, 2023 20:57

Nooner: Mar 26, 2011; AN A+ OPSTER (:

Colonel Cancer posted:

I'm a saucy boy and an outlandish sailor

# ? Mar 6, 2023 21:00

Smugworth: Apr 18, 2003

The British are scum

# ? Mar 6, 2023 21:39

Smugworth: Apr 18, 2003

So are the people of Boston

# ? Mar 6, 2023 21:39

Szyznyk: Mar 4, 2008

Where�s that picture of the Irish kid spearing a black guy with the American flag to keep him out of South Boston High School?

# ? Mar 6, 2023 21:59

Just Chamber: Feb 10, 2014; WE MUST RETURN TO THE DANCE! THE NIGHT IS OURS!

lil poopendorfer posted:

Little known fact: the first American murdered by the British was a Black man named Crispus Attucks. If you think the British are racist today, well, back then they were even worse � if you can imagine.

Death to Britannia

America looked at how Britain treated black people and thought "This isnt enough racism"

# ? Mar 6, 2023 22:07

Nigmaetcetera: Nov 17, 2004; borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins

Szyznyk posted:

Where�s that picture of the Irish kid spearing a black guy with the American flag to keep him out of South Boston High School?

Soiling of Old Glory, April 5, 1976, photographer Stanley Forman

# ? Mar 6, 2023 22:12

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Crispus Attacks (the british)

# ? Mar 6, 2023 22:20

Henry Lee Mucus: Dec 11, 2003

skasion posted:

Yeah and a cringing cop apologist to get them off in court, who later became president of the U.S. lmao

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Adams told the jury to look beyond the fact that the soldiers were British. He referred to the crowd that had provoked the soldiers as "a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes, and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish Jack Tarrs" (sailors). He then stated, "And why we should scruple to call such a set of people a mob, I can't conceive, unless the name is too respectable for them. The sun is not about to stand still or go out, nor the rivers to dry up because there was a mob in Boston on the 5th of March that attacked a party of soldiers."

Adams also described the former slave Crispus Attucks, saying "his very look was enough to terrify any person" and that "with one hand [he] took hold of a bayonet, and with the other knocked the man down." However, two witnesses contradict this statement, testifying that Attucks was 12�15 feet (3.7�4.6 m) away from the soldiers when they began firing, too far away to take hold of a bayonet. Adams stated that it was Attucks' behavior that, "in all probability, the dreadful carnage of that night is chiefly to be ascribed." He argued that the soldiers had the legal right to fight back against the mob and so were innocent. If they were provoked but not endangered, he argued, they were at most guilty of manslaughter.

The pigs used this exact excuse to justify murdering Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO a mere, um, 253 years later :shrug:

Henry Lee Mucus fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Mar 6, 2023

# ? Mar 6, 2023 23:14

Drone_Fragger: May 9, 2007

the British, when left to their own devices in the 1700's and 1800's, routinely find new and creative ways to commit colonial atrocities. These days of course, we've evolved onto more civilized endeavours, the bloodlust is simply tempered by the city-wide thunder dome that exists in Manchester, Birmingham and London, where hordes of roving knife-gangs attempt to stab each other and everyone else for the sheer thrill of it.

# ? Mar 7, 2023 00:31

Dang It Bhabhi!: May 27, 2004; ASK ME ABOUT
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Boston invented racism

# ? Mar 7, 2023 01:13

Animal-Mother: Feb 14, 2012; RABBIT RABBIT
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Szyznyk posted:

Where�s that picture of the Irish kid spearing a black guy with the American flag to keep him out of South Boston High School?

Nigmaetcetera posted:

Soiling of Old Glory, April 5, 1976, photographer Stanley Forman

Man, white people sure were mad about their kids going to school with black children. I wonder what happened to all those old racist white assholes...

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Congressional opposition to busing continued. Delaware senator (and future 46th US President) Joe Biden said "I don't feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather,"[20] and that busing was "a liberal train wreck."[21] In 1977, senators William Roth and Biden proposed the "Biden-Roth" amendment. This amendment "prevented judges from ordering wider busing to achieve actually-integrated districts."[22]

Oh.

Oh.

# ? Mar 7, 2023 02:39