The GOP Lynch Mob (warning: scenes of violence)

[tgnyc]

TODAY'S GOP

Protecting real American values since the end of Reconstruction.




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[Double T]

1. Some things never change...

they just take a different form.

[buff2]

2. God,that is horrible to look at

I can't understand how all those people gathered around and watched that....but even MORE appalling is the fact they all SUPPORTED that kind of treatment toward other human beings.Sick,sick SOB's.

[dave123williams]

3. It's amazing what people will do to protect the status quo.

[jojo54]

4. and they let their kids watch!

Which bred more racism and hatred with each new generation. Where does it end?

[TahitiNut]

6. Anyone who spoke out was called ....

... a "nigger lover" and that was enough to get crosses burnt on their lawns and their children beat up and their jobs lost. Repression is self-reinforcing. Some of the most outspoken retaliation came from people whose own fears of speaking out propelled an anger at those who'd show them for the cowards they were. "How dare you say what I'm afraid to say?" Most of us, rather than face our own cowardice, will rationalize, project, and overcompensate in some fashion. Social compliance is something human beings are long-accustomed to ensuring. We've gotten very 'good' at it.

[ls317]

11. ........

Find a movie called "Rosewood" it was made in the late 90`s 97-99 in the time frame.
That is just one version of what happened in Florida in the 1920`s.
It is a movie with a powerful message,based on a lie that was told by a women resulting in the death and lynching of town residents

[TahitiNut]

18. I've seen it. It's a sobering reminder of what I'm old enough to remember.

It takes an enormous amount of empathy to view anything, even as approximate and super-simplified as a motion picture, and gain anything close to an appreciation of what it's like to actually live such events.

It's a bit like watching sexual intercourse and thinking you know what it feels like to participate, watching someone ride a bicycle and know how it feels, and watching a bungee jump and know how it feels ... never having done any of them.

I've never been much of a voyeur. I've ridden bicycles, made love, and bungee-jumped. I've regarded myself as learning-disabled for most of my life ... incapable of satisfactorily comprehending civics, history, sociology, psychology, and other tangible and experiential areas of study without direct experience. Until I lived in the Deep South in the late 50's and early 60's, I didn't begin to comprehend segregation, despite my immersion in a bigoted (white) culture. It's only with direct, personal experience inside global corporations that I begin to comprehend the corruption. It's only with direct, personal experience inside a federal contractor that I begin to comprehend the corruption. It's only with direct, personal experience as a whistle-blower that I begin to comprehend how appallingly hypocritical we are as a society -- how we pretend to teach our children values that, when push comes to shove, we jettison like yesterday's leftover Big Mac.

I have just enough personal experience to comprehend a bit of the horror of "Rosewood" ... and enough to understand how hopelessly limited I am in any ability to appreciate how it is to be a participant in such an experience -- the horror of finding one's self on either "side."

[harlinchi]

12. Not just gathered and looked but...

set afire, removed fingers, toes and penises! Imagine the horror of living with the possibility of this happening to you! Or of the sexual coercion that occurred between in-debt Black service workers (maids, etc.) and men in power positions. Think of what fun it must have been to be a Black sharecropper kowtowing to men you depend upon for seed loans, who have taken a sexual interest in your budding 16-year old daughter! A fun time was had by all...

[fob]

20. The fuckers gathered around to watch are bad enough but those

who are not only willing to be seen on camera but are making an EFFORT to LEAN INTO the picture, are unhuman.

[shanti]

21. and smiling

ugh. it makes my blood run cold.

[ls317]

5. ........

Kent Conrad (D-ND) has anyone heard or read why he didnt sign off on this bill?? I have been able to find any information in regards to his views on this one


Just curious

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. He did late yesterday.

His name is no longer on that disgusting list.

[goclark]

16. Thank God there is no democrat listed!

Let them truly take the heat on this one.

It should be shouted to the roof tops...GOP = Pro Lynching Party

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Shit.

:cry:

They have smiles on their faces. :cry: evil, evil, evil PURE evil and we have Senators who support this!!!!!!!!!! :grr::nuke::grr::nuke::grr:

NOMINATED FOR THE GREATEST PAGE! SHOW THE WORLD! EXPOSE THE BASTARDS!

[zbdent]

9. Weren't these were made into postcards

at the time?

[Kraklen]

13. Yes.

There was one postcard that had a photograph of a crocodile eating a black man tied by the neck to a post. Caption read something like, "look out for these critters when you come to Florida." I'll see if I can find a link.

[Kraklen]

14. Yes.

There was one postcard that had a photograph of a crocodile eating a black man tied by the neck to a post. Caption read something like, "look out for these critters when you come to Florida." I'll see if I can find a link.

[Moderator]

10. tgnyc

Please add a warning to the subject line.
Pictures that depict violence or gore
must have a Warning in the subject line.


Thank you.


DU Moderator

[TWiley]

15. A Christian gathering after a prayer meeting in the South?

I thought so.

Did you know that they can now carry concealed weapons to church in South Carolina? This measure was so important that they specifically passed it several years ago.

[patdem]

17. Why is that IGNORANT man pointing at the hanging men?

Does he think the picture was about those white people and maybe nobody would notice two black people swinging by their necks from a tree? :grr: is just not enough!

[Kelvin Mace]

19. Today's GOP Stands for Traditional Values

[deutsey]

22. Read Baldwin's short story "Going to Meet the Man"

Also, Mark Twain's "United States of Lyncherdom."

[toey]

23. a few years ago

my live-in boyfriend (who is black) and i (i'm white) went on vacation for a week and when we got back, a similar picture was left in our front door. the name of the neighbor next door was Whitman. he had put up a wrought-iron sign that read "THE WHITEMANS." i wonder who could have possibly done that???