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1 Shiplord Kirel  Feb 7, 2015 3:35:22pm

One of my posts from 2010: A couple of lynchings

2 CuriousLurker  Feb 7, 2015 6:20:15pm
My mind kept roaming the past trying to retrieve a vaguely remembered photograph that I had seen long ago in the archives of a college library in Texas.

THIS. Jesse Washington. I know without even looking because the death of the pilot resurrected the same memory for me and I looked it up.

Speaking of Texas lynchings, there are more recent ones, like the murder of James Byrd, Jr. in Jasper in 1998. Granted, he wasn’t burned to death, but chaining someone to a pick-up while he’s alive and dragging him until he’s dismembered can hardly be considered a kinder, less brutal type of murder.

3 RadicalModerate  Feb 7, 2015 6:52:07pm

What almost never gets mentioned by any of these type of stories is that they only document the actual killings that were committed in the name of racial supremacy. They don’t account for the thousands of mysterious “disappearances” of African-Americans and those who were labeled as their sympathizers - some estimate that for every known murder case there were something like four unsolved (and in many cases undocumented) incidents where someone(s) simply disappeared without a trace. This was especially true in the southern US even well past what is known as the “Civil Rights Era”, because in many of these communities, local law enforcement was very much in bed with the racist groups responsible for the acts.

4 Lumberhead  Feb 7, 2015 7:43:19pm

re: #1 Shiplord Kirel

I appreciate how you mention in those comments how hearing about these incidents made you look at older people differently. It reminds me of how I usually react when I see pictures of segregationists from the 50’s and 60’s. I almost always sarcastically think to myself “The Greatest Generation”.

5 majii  Feb 7, 2015 8:03:30pm

A more recent case of white supremacists exercising their god-given right to attack and kill blacks happened to James Byrd in TX in 1998 when three white supremacists hooked him up to the back of a truck and dragged him for three miles until he died, just because they could. I’m quite sure they considered themselves to be “good” Christians acting in God’s name.

6 Dark_Falcon  Feb 8, 2015 8:31:17am

re: #5 majii

A more recent case of white supremacists exercising their god-given right to attack and kill blacks happened to James Byrd in TX in 1998 when three white supremacists hooked him up to the back of a truck and dragged him for three miles until he died, just because they could. I’m quite sure they considered themselves to be “good” Christians acting in God’s name.

There is, however, a critical difference between the murder of James Byrd and lynchings earlier in the 20th century: Byrd’s killers did not get away with their crime. They were caught, tried, and convicted. One got life without parole for giving evidence against the other two, those other two were sentenced to death and one of them has in fact since been executed.

None of that brought James Byrd back, but it marked an important step forward that a southern state tried and imprisoned white men for lynching a black man and actually has executed one of them for the crime.


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