Remember Leland Stanford, who called Asian-Americans the "dregs" of "an inferior race" in his inaugural speech as California governor before it turned out that he would be absolutely dependent on their labor to finish the Transcontinental Railroad. http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/08-Stanford.html …https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1126909703181651969 …
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Your quote from Stanford's inaugural address led to googling which turned up this quote from H.H. Haight, the Gov. preceding Stanford, which led me to *his* 1867 inaugural address which turned up some real doozies! Damn! Two years *after* the end of the Civil War?!pic.twitter.com/zuJMaMzLz4
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In about 1852, the Legislature authorized reimbursement for any ammunition used to murder Indians. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300181361/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_4DY1Cb4SGDE4D …
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