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Newsone.com: Two Young Black Men Lynched In Oklahoma By Four Whites And Its Getting No Media Attention. Yes, it still happens!!!
JustAnotherGen
(31,819 posts)This is what ugly assed racists call 'quality family time' I guess?
I'm more angry at the monsters than I am the media.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,987 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Oh and take the time to dismember them. Story clearly checks out.
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,925 posts)or actually, ranted about it, this morning. And he read a portion of this article on the air. It was basically in relation to the recent opening of the Lynching Memorial and Museum in Montgomery, AL and was part of his demand that Congress pass a federal "anti-lynching" law (no such thing exists at this time).
Bradshaw3
(7,520 posts)From what I've read it was some sick family members who did the killing and then tried to cover it up. It wasn't a mob doing an extra-judicial killing. Whether it is race-based is still not clear. To call it a lynching at this point is hyperbolic.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)"he witnessed his brother open fire killing the two men.
Any/all murders are bad,
but using the word 'lynching' is only meant to inflame an already sad situation.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)This seems to be rather like the notion used by the conference "Toward an International History of Lynching" at Heidelberg University in 2010, where the opening speaker proposed to define lynching as extralegal punishment perpetrated by mobs claiming to represent the will of the larger community
Ida Wells essay Lynch Law in America (1900) says somewhat the same: for her, it is the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an "unwritten law" that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal
It is not clear that the present case constitutes a "lynching," if we use the word in this common sense. The claim made by the killers is that they had intended to engage in a private gunsale, had become frightened and opened fire, then attempted a cover-up. We do not know just how much of that account is true, of course. Perhaps robbery, or even unmotivated murder, was the original intent; and it is certainly easy to believe that racism played an important role. But the lynchings that occurred frequently in this country into the early twentieth century were often carefully premediated, widely publicized, and terrifying spectacles:
Smartly dressed, with his walking cane in hand, W.E.B. Du Bois left his home in Atlanta on April 24, 1899, and began walking downtown along Mitchell Street. He was carrying a letter of introduction to Joel Chandler Harris ... Du Bois rarely left the university to go into downtown Atlanta because he refused to ride the city's segregated streetcars. But a sensational rape and murder in rural Georgia .. had caused an uproar, and a black farmhand .. had been lynched. Du Bois had studied .. lynching ... "It occurred to me," he said later, "that I might go down to the Atlanta Constitution and talk with Joel Chandler Harris, and try to put before the South what happened in cases of this sort, and try to see if I couldn't start some sort of movement" ... Before W.E.B. Du Bois could reach the Constitution office to discuss the Sam Hose lynching with Joel Chandler Harris, he learned that Hose had been "barbecued" and that his knuckles were for sale in a grocer's window a few blocks ahead on the very street he was walking. Du Bois would allude to the moment numerous times during his long life as the shock that "pulled me off my feet." He stopped and slowly reversed his steps back toward the university ...