Although Mary Turner was not lynched in the traditional sense, she was strung upside down by her ankles by a mob in Georgia in 1918. They doused her clothes in gasoline and set her on fire. While she was still alive, someone sliced open her (cont) www.blackpast.org/african-amer...
This is some of our history that this administration doesn't want you to know.
🥲🥲🥲 I don't know what you call this but it's beyond, way beyond inhumane.
😥💔 Racism is ignorance and stupidity and denial is the heartbeat. It needs to be eradicated!
I am one of her descendants
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Thank you😪
This is so horrible,I have never heard this,this is terrible beyond Words
Mary Turner was lynched for publicly denouncing her husband’s murder the previous day by a lynch mob. Rachel Marie-Crane Williams is the author of a hand-illustrated account of her brutal death entitled Elegy for Mary Turner. Read it if you can.
Just horrible!
Omg, Eddie. 😢 This story, above all the others…horrifies. I write this through tears. That poor, poor woman. And her baby? That tiny, helpless little human. I will never understand how people can be is fucking vile and cruel.
The mindset today for many is still the same. If they cheered on the idea of Alligator Alcatraz and hope someone will get eaten by an alligator; thet would have no problem attending and participating in a lynching. #KeepItWoke
It scares me how easily people can condone or even just blithely ignore genocide and other atrocities against humanity. We are still so flawed as a species…
This thread is horrific to read but also vitally important. We must preserve our history and most of all LEARN from it, so that such atrocities are never repeated.
Yet, these are the same individuals who proudly display the American flag and carry their bibles, never missing a church service and openly declaring themselves as Conservative Christians!! Same shit, different era!!!
You’re so right—so very, very right. And, we are dangerously close to those people having a stranglehold on power, nationwide.
Truth. So disturbing!!!
her stomach and her unborn baby slid out and fell to the ground. Someone in the mob stomped the baby to death. It is reported that spectators took parts of her body as mementos. In Arkansas, Zachariah Walker was lynched on August 13, 1911.(cont) readingwhilemommying.substack.com/p/the-lynchi...
How do you wrap your mind around these horrendous acts? They would probably claim to be Christians while they were at it.
Zachariah Walker was lynched in my hometown of Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Tied to a mattress and burned.
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The sign gets vandalized over and over again, including being shot at. Apparently some sons of the Confederacy don’t think history reflects well on the nobility of their Lost Cause.
Dear GOD IN HEAVEN!! THIS is why I'm dedicated to the marginalized. The ways of the past are barbaric & unthinkable. I cant stop sobbing... 💔😭😭😭
I didn’t like reading these gruesome details. These people were evil barbarians. But it IS America’s dark history and we can’t look away especially with today’s political climate. If we look, we can see it continuing on in different ways and the dehumanizing of specific groups of people never ended.
It’s no wonder that today’s Republican Party of white supremacists want to ban books and erase history. They hold the same beliefs and hearts of hate. It’s disgusting!
It's a "Clearing of the Canvas" before a revolution. The regime is intending to reboot the history of America and remake the gov't in their own image. To do that first, they must completely tear down established institutions and nullify what the public find normal and sacred.
This story always makes me tear up. 😢
He was burned to death while a huge crowd of men, women, and children watched. Several stayed at the site, waiting for the ashes to cool, so they could collect bone fragments. In Texas, John Lee was lynched after being accused of a crime in 1921. (cont) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynchin...
My father kept the Life Magazine showing Emmett Till's body and the interview with his mother until the day he died, and my brother has it now. Never forget. History leaves evidence. Truth will Out.
After a chase and a shootout which tore his body to pieces, the body was placed upon a pile of wood and set on fire. In Marion, Indiana (1930), Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were lynched by a mob. Photos of the event show a large crowd, including (cont) calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
👆 The alleged assault victim later testified that she had not been raped.
That was the usually the case. 😔
women & children. When the sheriff eventually cut the ropes off the corpses, the crowd rushed forward to take parts of the men's bodies as "souvenirs". These instances reflect the brutal reality of lynching in America and the disturbing behavior of those who (cont)
SICK! GROSS! MAGA BEHAVIOR!
Absolutely disgusting
participated in or witnessed these acts. The practice of taking body parts as souvenirs underscores the dehumanization and violence that characterized these events. This is your history, America. It must be preserved so you can learn from it. #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam✡️🕊
This picture has haunted me since the first time I saw it many years ago. I would say we are there again, but I don't think we ever really left.
Thank you, Eddie. This was a very difficult read - the level of cruelty is incomprehensible. I can’t even begin to comprehend taking body parts - and totally grotesque. We need to keep this history, to learn from it and make damn sure it’s not repeated.
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the little white girl looks so proud.
Horrifying... So incredibly sad.
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I never associated the 2. Good point Red Lori. I feel like a "fool. A silly little fool." (The Great Gatsby on having a female child.) Thank you... 🤦♀️🫣😬😩😖🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Disturbing. But this is why it’s critical to know history—so we don’t repeat it.
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They were everywhere. Oregon was founded as a whites only state in 1857. This list covers 1882-1968. It’s not some old-timey thing. White people still support over policing and incarcerating Black people in every state. law2.umkc.edu/faculty/proj...
There are huge numbers of people with these hateful & violent attitudes today. They’re just waiting for the opportunity to act on them. J6ers, white Christian nationalists, white supremacists groups are just looking for a leader to give them permission to act on their unhinged beliefs with violence.
And also the Waco Horror en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynchin...
This was even hard to read,the cruelty, and making the horrors perpetrated a family event😑 But history has to be taught, the real history not the whitewashed versions.
We can’t let Trump erase this history.
Well that was awful.... and necessary history. Thanks for your work Eddie. Do we know what the idea was with these souvenirs? In other words; wtf were these ghouls thinking chopping bits off of human beings? I could happily string up a few people for their actions but cutting bits off of them?!
Hi Eddie. Always interesting posts. Thanks for that. Being Dutch and knowing its own history the following: A land, as yours, that is build on murdering millions of natives and enslaving, murdering, raping and dehumanizing African people will only change when it will recognize its more then brutal
history. Even in Holland nowadays people don't want to look how we got our wealth, in what we call, De Goeden eeuw (the golden age). When people come to visit Amsterdam to see the old building, little street and canals remember how it got to be like this. The Keizersgracht is build on the lives and
blood of hundreds of thousands of slaves from Africa. Remember: when Rembrandt painted the most beautiful paintings for the rich at the same time these rich were plundering and killing the inlands of Africa. All was kept hidden for the people at home. I'm one of the few who keeps telling these
horrific stories of our ancestors. If you don't want to know your own history and always wave it away you can't build a future that's built on lies. When you followers want to read more about it there are two books that come to mind: 1: Roofstaat and 2: Zanzibar driehoek. I don't know if they are
translated in English. They are worthwhile. See hier the front covers of both books.
The sick part is this is where they want to take this country back to and they were still enjoying lynchings by watching police brutality videos they didn’t need to see to gain empathy but decided they needed to watch 1/
Then they showed it again when they were ok with mass slaughter of Jews and Jews being held hostage. Now they are ok with expecting this to happen to Black politicians and thinking we are born yesterday 2/
Is this girl smiling?
Not only is she smiling, she is mocking him. Look at her hands. She's imitating him as his hands are bound.
What I/we need to remember is that these are ordinary ppl. They're not recognizable monsters. Which is why being woke - awake - is so important so that *I* don't become like this.
You won't. But we need to ensure that children aren't indoctrinated by parents/schools/communities to believe that there is an "other" to be feared/punished...
I hope I won't. But if I am too sure I am in danger. (Think of all the racists who say, I am not a racist, that's not who I am.) Fortunately my kids and at least one if my grandkids are also woke.
What happened to Mary Turner fucks me up every time I think about it. She was justifiably angry and distraught because her husband was lynched and they lynched her too.
I hope hell is true.
