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People who are writing the long history of schools and violence in the USA should consider the "631 [Black] schools that were burned or otherwise destroyed between 1864 and 1876, and hundreds more throughout much of the 20th century" included in a database by Campbell Scribner.Permalink On twitter.com
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Those arsons and bombings were part of organized efforts to deny either integrated or adequate education to African Americans. edweek.org/leadership/racist-bomb-threats-and-post-civil-war-school-burnings-a-scholar-connects-the-dots/2022/03 muse.jhu.edu/article/774313 Scribner reports that this count is incomplete.Permalink On twitter.com
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Schools were often targeted and burned in broader race massacres like Memphis 1866. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_riots_of_1866 Among the destroyed institutions in Memphis was the first iteration of the LeMoyne Normal Institute. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeMoyne_Normal_InstituteOn twitter.com
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On the long history of violence against spaces of higher education for Blacks in the United States. theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/02/hbcu-bomb-threats-howard-university/621485/Permalink On twitter.com
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The point is not that school shootings are all racialized, but rather that looking backward into any violent phenomena in US history, such as violent attacks on schools or the Second Amendment, one often find racialized violence that has been overlooked.Permalink On twitter.com
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The unique role of guns in American political culture is tied up with a variety of forms of private violence, many of them enactments of racism.Permalink On twitter.com