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Fight appeared to start when a worker objected to a pontoon boat preventing a larger river boat from docking, and was attacked by a group of white men

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Police also appealed to the public for help in determining what had happened.

'It appears to the untrained eye that this is a simple case of some white people fucking around and finding out but we need some white witnesses to tell us that it is all the black suspects fault.'

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Damn man. Someone was beaten over the head with a folding chair?

rocking song starts playing

"Ba gawd! That's the riverboat captain's music!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Should of been fucking hit a few more times. Tired of these racist fucks, wanna act like an ignorant piece of shit? Go live in the 1800s.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fun fact: the folding chair was invented by an African American in the early 1900’s.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Let's give Nathaniel Alexander some detail!

https://www.thoughtco.com/nathaniel-alexander-folding-chair-4074172

Patent 997,108, filed March 10, 1911, and granted July 4 the same year

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

He was probably sick of swinging full sized regular chairs at racist chucklefucks, so he got to work streamlining the swingin'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Live Every Chair and Swing” will now be the lyrics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Swing low (or high) sweet chair, it hits, coming forth to stagger them down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bro walked up with the unblockable overhead

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Thoughts and chairs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

They tried it in a big town and got their asses kicked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Fucking lol. Imagine fucking your life up because you hate the way dark skinned people look or some shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You know to defend the white guys that were involved in this unfortunate incident, would be fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago