Georgia lynching marker vandalized again

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:06 pm CST, Saturday, December 29, 2018

VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — A marker identifying the location of one of the most gruesome lynchings in Georgia history has once again been vandalized.

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"Although there is little our organization can do to stop these acts of hatred, and given we live in one of the few states that does not have hate crime laws, the Mary Turner Project is contacting members of the press and local elected officials for your assistance," George said in an email.

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Mary Turner was eight months pregnant when her ankles were tied and she was lynched by a mob at the Lowndes-Brooks county line in 1918. Her husband was one of the 13 lynching victims commemorated by the marker. Turner's outcry over her husband's death led to her lynching.

"It's interesting that this has been a target at least twice," George said. "We treat this as a sacred place because this is where she was killed, and this was basically her tombstone because her body was never recovered. What people are desecrating is basically a tombstone."



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[ck4829]

1. Wait though, I thought people wanted to REMEMBER their history

That's what we heard with Confederate monuments.

[marble falls]

2. They want to white out history, not remember it. Lets melt those hero's statures down to ...

markers for every single lynching we can find a location for. That'll be too many to destroy.

The only question is: are there even enough Confederate traitor monuments to make a dent on the number of known lynchings???

[Igel]

3. When they put up markers

and "remember their history," it's really to intimidate and send a message to minorities.

When minorities put up markers, it's really just about the mourning that they've felt for those particular people for many, many years--in no way is it a message to the majority.


Say one thing, think another, do a third. We become what we hate.