Jillian Rowe Cohen
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On November 10, 1898, white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, burned down a Black-owned newspaper, unalived Black residents, and violently overthrew the city’s elected government. And the man who helped lead the mob became mayor. This wasn’t a spontaneous race riot. It was a carefully orchestrated political coup, fueled by racist propaganda, voter intimidation, and white men who couldn’t tolerate Black people having political power. And the people responsible weren’t prosecuted. They were rewarded. 128 years later, it’s time for another F*ck A** History lesson. #FuckAssHistory #WilmingtonMassacre #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #HistoryTok
Jillian Rowe Cohen204,600 views • 4 days ago
Happy Columbus Day! In honor of this deeply questionable holiday, we’re launching a brand-new series: FUCK ASS HISTORY. (Don’t worry a new Nope is coming this evening) And who better to kick things off than Christopher Columbus, a man who sailed across the Atlantic looking for Asia, got spectacularly lost, and proceeded to make it everybody else’s problem? Turns out the whole “discovered America” story leaves out a few minor details. Like the people who already lived here. And the kidnapping. And the enslavement. And the atrocities. Today we’re separating the elementary school mythology from the actual historical record. Welcome to Fuck Ass History. Class is in session, and apparently everything we learned in third grade needs revisiting. #FuckAssHistory #ChristopherColumbus #ColumbusDay #HistoryTok #History
Jillian Rowe Cohen2,000,000 views • 1 month ago
Oregon voted to prohibit slavery in 1857. Sounds great, right? Except those same voters ALSO voted to prohibit Black people from living there. And somehow, that’s not even the most fucked-up part of this story. 🫠 Welcome to Part 3 of Fuck Ass History: The Myth of the Free North. We’re talking about Oregon’s early laws threatening Black residents with WHIPPING if they refused to leave, the Black businessman who was actually expelled from the territory, and the racial exclusion clause that remained in Oregon’s constitution until 1926. Because apparently, being a “free state” didn’t necessarily mean believing Black people deserved freedom, equality, or even a place to live. And THAT is some fuck ass history. #FuckAssHistory #OregonHistory #DarkHistory #AmericanHistory #HistoryTok
Jillian Rowe Cohen341,300 views • 19 days ago
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