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They were scared of more than just jazz music. Once black people got the right to vote white people realized that they were quite diligent voters.

The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870 guaranteed the right to vote to men of all races, including former slaves. Initially, this resulted in high voter turnout among African-Americans in the South. In the 1880 United States presidential election, a majority of eligible African-American voters cast a ballot in every Southern state except for two. In eight Southern states, Black turnout was equal to or greater than White turnout. At the end of the Reconstruction era, Southern states began implementing policies to suppress Black voters.

After 1890, less than 9,000 of Mississippi's 147,000 eligible African-American voters were registered to vote, or about 6%. Louisiana went from 130,000 registered African-American voters in 1896 to 1,342 in 1904 (about a 99% decrease).

Nothing is more dangerous than scared ~~white~~ people with the power to do something about it. This is why individuals fear the wealthy and the wealthy fear the masses.

Don't confuse color and power. They are correlated in recent parts of western culture but pretending they are the same is white supremacy.

Blacks were over represented in prisons long before jazz.

...what? No. It as nothing to do with jazz or "being afraid" of it. It's a continuation of the slave trade, predating jazz by over a century.

Pretty sure the thirteenth amendment predates jazz.

Drugs became more illegal because of jazz. White dudes were scared their daughters were enjoying the cotton clubs. weed became schedule whatever to crimilaze black people, 13th amendment with prisons became slavery and for profit in the Freedom States of America.

* or being aware that their privileged place in the social order is built on the legacy of slavery, and desperate to preempt the bill coming due

That’s pretty much world history is a nutshell. “White man scared.”