"The Worst Thing We've Ever Done"
Slavery and its aftermath...
On The Media
NPR
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-2018-06-01/
Alan: For me the most informative part of this radio report starts at the 20:50.
UNC-CH Professor Of Public Health John Hatch's Grandparents Were All Born Slaves: The Horror
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/unc-ch-professor-of-public-health-john.html
Alan: For me the most informative part of this radio report starts at the 20:50.
UNC-CH Professor Of Public Health John Hatch's Grandparents Were All Born Slaves: The Horror
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/08/unc-ch-professor-of-public-health-john.html
The Legacy Museum
(The focal point of NPR's "The Worst Thing We've Ever Done")
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legacy_Museum
"The Deadly Oppression Of Black People: Best Pax Posts"
"Bad Black People." Why Bill O'Reilly Is Wrong Even When He's Right"
"Good Christians" barbequing a black man.
Negroes Barbequed, 1904
Suspected of killing a white plantation owner, Luther Holbert - a Negro sharecropper - attempted to escape from his home in Vardaman's Mississippi with his wife before a lynch mob could dispense its own form of "justice." Catching up with the Holberts, the mob bound the couple to convenient trees. While the mob's ringleaders forced the Holberts' to hold out their hands in order that their fingers could be chopped off one by one -- the audience of 600 spectators enjoyed treats like deviled eggs, lemonade, and whiskey in a festive atmosphere. Next, the Holberts' ears were amputated and those severed appendages, along with the disconnected digits, became much-prized souvenirs. Mr. Holbert was beaten severely enough so that his skull was fractured and one eye was left dangling from its socket. When someone in the crowd produced a large corkscrew, that instrument was used to alternately bore into husband and wife, each time gouging out "spirals...of raw, quivering flesh" when withdrawn. Finally, the tortured man and woman were burned alive like Christian martyrs. This final imagery - juxtaposed against a tableau of picnic treats -- demonstrates the sheer dehumanization of lynching for both victim and perpetrator. "
American Lynching" http://www.americanlynching.com/
Reprising my opening text in rich context.
"Selling is worse than flogging. My back has been beaten many times but has always healed. They sold my husband away. My heart is not right yet."
Until you have a perspective on what it means to be ripped from the only thing you get as an enslaved person, which is the opportunity to love someone -- your child, your spouse, your parent -- then you're not going to appreciate the devastation.
And then, when you see that instead of remedying 250 years of enslavement, we actually aggravated it by terrorizing people... through lynching, Jim Crow, police brutality, imprisonment (often for the crime of "walking while black"), perpetual confrontation of White Nationalist/Trumpian racism.
Suspected of killing a white plantation owner, Luther Holbert - a Negro sharecropper - attempted to escape from his home in Vardaman's Mississippi with his wife before a lynch mob could dispense its own form of "justice." Catching up with the Holberts, the mob bound the couple to convenient trees. While the mob's ringleaders forced the Holberts' to hold out their hands in order that their fingers could be chopped off one by one -- the audience of 600 spectators enjoyed treats like deviled eggs, lemonade, and whiskey in a festive atmosphere. Next, the Holberts' ears were amputated and those severed appendages, along with the disconnected digits, became much-prized souvenirs. Mr. Holbert was beaten severely enough so that his skull was fractured and one eye was left dangling from its socket. When someone in the crowd produced a large corkscrew, that instrument was used to alternately bore into husband and wife, each time gouging out "spirals...of raw, quivering flesh" when withdrawn. Finally, the tortured man and woman were burned alive like Christian martyrs. This final imagery - juxtaposed against a tableau of picnic treats -- demonstrates the sheer dehumanization of lynching for both victim and perpetrator. "
American Lynching" http://www.americanlynching.com/
American Lynching" http://www.americanlynching.com/
"Selling is worse than flogging. My back has been beaten many times but has always healed. They sold my husband away. My heart is not right yet."
Until you have a perspective on what it means to be ripped from the only thing you get as an enslaved person, which is the opportunity to love someone -- your child, your spouse, your parent -- then you're not going to appreciate the devastation.
And then, when you see that instead of remedying 250 years of enslavement, we actually aggravated it by terrorizing people... through lynching, Jim Crow, police brutality, imprisonment (often for the crime of "walking while black"), perpetual confrontation of White Nationalist/Trumpian racism.
The Future Of Race In America: TED Talk By Michelle Alexander, Author Of "The New Jim Crow"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-future-of-race-in-america-ted-talk.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-future-of-race-in-america-ted-talk.html
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