The Greensboro massacre – talking bout China Grove

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The Greensboro Massacre, as it became known, was the coming-out bloodbath for the white nationalist movement that is upending our politics today. When Trump and his clan say MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN and the Wall between the Trump racists and the Liberal anti racists looms ever larger, (paid for by the republican Party) having a credible opinion on America’s inherent racism depends on facts. It is a fact that a racist young man from North Carolina, born near Greensboro, traveled to South Africa and believed to his core in apartheid and white supremacy. With the skills he acquired in South Africa, he started writing cheesy novels, and became a political leader to the christian white supremacists, advocating white supremacy as a religion. His actions as leader of an ideological movement led to the events in Greensboro in 1979. America was never the same again.
5 educated, kind, committed-to-helping the poorest Americans, were gunned down in cold blood by White Christian supremacists who were found not guilty of any offense. Because the Courts deemed the word communism as grounds to ignore and remove their basic rights as American citizens. Legitimizing and normalizing a class of Klan member that would MAGA in 2016 with their dog whistle leader.

So what happened in North Carolina in 1979 and why did the court find the killers innocent?

The day the countries best known racists killed 5 people in cold blood, happened in Greensboro, North Carolina.
On Nov. 3, 1979, Klansmen and America Nazis arrived at a “Death to the Klan” protest held by anti-fascist members of the Communist Workers Party, most incolved in social programs for the upliftment of the lowest class. (One a student f divinity. Another traveling to help the poor in Zimbabwe.) Guns were drawn. When the chaos cleared, five anti-Klan demonstrators between the ages of 25 and 36 were dead and at least 10 more were injured. Police were nowhere to be seen. They were finishing their breakfast across town…………

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Top left: William Luther Pierce in a high school military academy uniform. Top left: A copy of “The Turner Diaries” written by Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. Bottom: A secret gathering of Klansmen in 1950s Georgia. | Wikimedia Commons; AP Photo; Getty Images

Cesar and Floris on their wedding day in 1979.

César Vincente Cauce (March 5, 1954 – November 3, 1979) was a Cuban immigrant whose family came to the United States during the turmoil of the rise of Castro in Cuba. His parents and younger sister settled in Miami where he grew up and attended Catholic Schools and then Miami Dade Community College. Cesar’s father was an educator was a learned man who believed in education and help to create schools in Cuba. He later rose to become the Minister of Education for Batista. The fact that his father worked for this government became a later source of conflict between them, but the family love always remained strong. Cesar transferred to Duke University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree History and Political Science. His time in Durham, North Carolina eventually brought him into contact the still ongoing Civil Rights movement.

Cesar Cauce, late 1970s

Dr. Mike Nathan with daughter Leah, 1979

Michael Ronald Nathan, M.D. (July 13, 1947 – November 5, 1979) was the son of two Eastern European Jewish immigrants, his father a printer and his mother a housewife. Both adored their only son. Mike was raised in Washington DC and then suburban Maryland where his mother was forced to work in a department store after his father died when Mike was 14. He was popular and was elected homecoming king at his high school, but rejected the honor because it didn’t reflect his values that increasingly focused on social justice and peace.

Dr. Mike Nathan (standing) sends medical supplies to Zimbabwe liberation fighters

Bill Sampson and Dale Deering get married in 1977.

William Evan Sampson (January 23, 1948 – November 3, 1979) William Sampson was descended from Swedish Lutherans who immigrated to the United States and farmed the Illinois prairie. His parents had worked on the Manhattan Project developing the atom bomb for the U.S. government; later, his father was hired by the Dupont Company. Bill grew up in the South. As a child, he witnessed a cross being burned near his home. The experience of seeing a religious symbol of love used to express hatred and bigotry unsettled him profoundly and was with him for the rest of his life as he committed himself to anti-racist action.

Bill Sampson (front left) on picket line with Traders Chevrolet workers on strike in Greensboro in 1978.

Sandi Smith (holding megaphone), at African Liberation Day in Washington, DC in 1979.

Sandra Lee Neely Smith (December 25, 1950 – November 3, 1979), born in Piedmont, SC to a textile mill worker and a school teacher, was president of the student body and a founding member of the Student Organization for Black Unity (SOBU) at Greensboro’s Bennett College. She was a community organizer for the Greensboro Association of Poor People (GAPP) and became a worker at the textile mill where she and others formed the Revolution Organizing Committee (ROC) to unionize the plant. Sandi was a leader of a march of over 3,000 people in Raleigh to free the Wilmington 10, ten young activists jailed on false charges to stop them from organizing.In her work at Cone Mills Revolution Plant, she battled sexual harassment, low wages, and unhealthy working conditions. At the time of her death, Sandi was working at Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, NC. Prior to that she worked at Cone Mills Revolution Plant.

Jim Waller in Washington DC at African Liberation Day in 1979.

James Michael Waller, M.D. (November 5, 1942 – November 3, 1979) Dr. James Waller came from a middle class Jewish family in Chicago. He was the grandson, on his mother’s side, of a physician who broke through the anti-Semitism that kept Jews out medicine in the 1920s. A polio survivor, Jim was an excellent student. He often won prizes for his science projects in high school, but modestly made no mention of it, even to his parents.

Jim & Signe, Chicago by lake, 1977

Waller family summer of 1979, l. to r. Antonia Goldstein, Dr. Jim Waller, Alex Goldstein, Signe Waller

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