The Coup on Cape Fear - Part Two: Red Shirt Riot

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In the conclusion of my series on the Wilmington Coup, I describe the voter intimidation and fraud that White Supremacists engaged in before perpetrating an outright massacre of the Black residents of the city and overthrowing the lawfully elected city government at gunpoint, as well as the structures of systemic racism they established after seizing power, all in an effort to show that the orchestrators of the attempted coup of January 6th, 2020, must be held to account. Pledge support on Patreon and receive ad-free episodes and exclusive minisodes! Check out my novel, Manuscript Found! And check out the new show merch! Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness. Some music on this episode is copyright Alex Kish. Contact him at alexkishmusic.com to get music for your own projects. Other music, including "Comatose," "Remedy for Melancholy," and "daemones," are by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0). Additional Music: Leaving Home Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.4	Thank you. wherever you get podcasts. It is no secret that prominent conspiracy theorist and erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump's
1:26.5	baseless claims of voter fraud proven to be without merit
1:30.6	in court case after court case were the main impetus propelling the capital rioters in their
1:37.1	attempted coup on January 6th, 2020. And such claims were nothing new from Trump. He was telegraphing his intentions to make
1:46.9	these claims throughout the 2020 campaign, using this lie as a means of suppressing votes
1:53.4	by casting suspicion on the perfectly legal and secure mail-in voting protocols that many
1:59.0	states relied on during the first year of the pandemic.
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