In We Will Shoot Back, Akinyele Umoja goes further than dispelling a long held myth that black Mississippians were too paralyzed in fear to defend themselves and actively participate in the freedom struggle. And that the omnipotent Klu Klux Klan kept the black community in check. He confronts head-on the stereotype that black southerners were docile, head-hanging, cheek-turning second class citizens.
Umoja takes the reader to the time when black Mississippians were forced to embrace armed resistance for their own survival; blacks faced the realization that their government offered no pretense of protection and could not be relied upon. In many cases, local government officials, along with law enforcement, were part of the same white mobs terrorizing black communities. Umoja chronicles the inextricable and critical role of armed resistance in the advancement of the southern freedom strategy that ultimately led to the passage of the historic Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Boycotts and armed resistance were the primary means of effectively organizing for change during this period.
Umoja documents a sophisticated labyrinth of disciplined, well-organized communication networks, safe houses, haven towns and armed residents who, much to the chagrin of local authorities, used local gun laws to their advantage. The special expertise of Vietnam veterans was also tapped.
boy oh boy sure am glad that during this crisis I get to experience Capitalist Plenty
and not Socialist Deprivation
rlly makes u think
hahahahahaha!!!!!!!! 50 years on and Vietnam is still beating America’s ass !!!!!!!!!!
uh huh
You know how china lies?
Vietnam does the same shit.
I live in vietnam and the number is actually that low lmao vietnam has closed down schools and universities and started online learning since feb. they have praticed social distancing and lock down for 20 days now. The government literally spent billions to put tourists in quarantine for free to health check them everyday for fourteen days to make sure community spread doesn’t happen. They’re willing to risk the economy as long as the people are safe. Like you do know vietnamese people have access to the internet right???
Population differences you people, America has significantly more people total
wow you’re such a genius, if only there were statistics for the number of cases per million people so we could scale it to population size, such as here:
can any mathematicians tell us whether 3 or 3,379 is the larger number? can any number wizards help us out on that one
The lengths that people go to to try and force the idea that the us is great are just astounding really
The disillusionment of the American people is on par with the Chinese for COVID relief
I do agree that the U.S. certainly has not handled this well, and vietnam distributing food meals and groceries likely helped greatly with preventing the spread of infection. However, a fact worth considering is population density, which is so much more relevant here than the raw population. The more dense a population an area has, the more difficult it would be for a person to completely self-isolate without accidentally spreading a contagious disease.
Their are more factors to consider as to how the number got that high (culure, people, etc.) but its honestly not that much of a surprise that the U.S. has more cases given the density of certain areas.
(side-note: Kings county in NY has 50k and queens county has 57k, both are less dense than Manhattan. I don’t know enough about NY to say why)
hey cool i want you to know you’re a fucking idiot.
the first thing that is stupid is that you’re comparing Vietnam to New York State exclusively, when virtually every state in the united states has a far lower population density than Vietnam, and still, mysteriously, is doing far worse. in fact the USA overall has a population density of a mere 36 per square km, approximately a 9th of the 263 per square km in Vietnam. according to your logic, by all rights Vietnam should be doing far worse than the USA as a whole, and yet.
also you don’t seem to know how a mile compares to a km, since you keep saying that the population density per square mile is smaller than the population density per square mile. a mile is larger than a kilometer so it should be obvious that this is incorrect. you claim that the 263 per square km population density of Vietnam converts to 102 per square mile- this is wrong, it converts to 423 per square mile. which, wow, look at that, is higher than New York State’s 414!
the red river delta is a far broader region than Manhattan, including not only urban regions but also the surrounding suburbs and rural areas. a more apt comparison would be to, say, district 11 in ho chi min city, which has a population density of 45,241 per square km- compare to the 25,846 per square km of Manhattan. in fact, here’s a rundown on the most populous districts in NYC compared to Vietnamese cities, which allows us the most accurate possible comparison:
as you can see, the population density in districts in NYC is largely on par with that of districts in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, with the sole exception of Yorkville, which admittadly does have a higher population density.
i hope it should be obvious that the population density of the Yorkville district alone is not an adaquate explanation of the vast difference between zero deaths, and, currently, 90,263 deaths.
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