It's the 100th anniversary of the Ocoee Massacre in Florida. A night culminating in racial terrorism, lynching, buildings set ablaze, murders, land theft, and the creation of a sundown town. "The worst instance of Election Day violence in American history" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/02/ocoee-florida-election-day-massacre/

I realize the election has sucked up all the air in most newsrooms, but the level of coverage I'm seeing on one of the most significant acts of terrorism against Black people in the history of the Jim Crow South is depressing.

And I realize some of this stems from the fact that there are still many who don't see Florida history as part of Southern history. A place where "there were more lynchings per capita than in any other state besides Mississippi." It's an erasure that kills me, especially today.