AMERICAN LYNCHING
Marion, Indiana flaunted the truthiness of love and justice as they allowed the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abe Smith in 1930. Shipp and Smith were black teens accused of murdering a white man and raping a white woman. History has taught us that these terrorist attacks were never justified. They were used unjustly against black folks in light of the demonic mentality whites consumed during that time. If you were white and you were against lynching; helping blacks, you were lynched too. If you study the picture above, it appears they are dressed up to go to church; men and women gathered in their best attire. Children were known to be present at these murders, sadly. It was normal for church folks to come home from church and attend a lynching. I don’t know what bible they were reading back then but I thought God was love. I understand why some people don’t want to embrace Christianity. A lot of white supremacy was used to control black folks through religion. They lusted for the intimidation and control of black people with lynching as their ammunition!
“Today I have stood, where once Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this very heart of the great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history. Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny…and I say…segregation today… segregation tomorrow…segregation forever."
George C. Wallace 1963 Inaugural Speech (Excerpt)
Unfortunately, there are scientific elements of hate and white supremacy dripping dangerously in the "heart of the great Anglo-Saxon" of America and in other countries that keeps racism effective and in place. They are the remainders of the George Wallace effect; mass incarceration, oppression, discrimination and all the other abominations tied to lynching. It's time for atonement.
“One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free. We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our freedom here at home, but are we to say to the world, and much more importantly, to each other that this is the land of the free except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettoes, no master race except with respect to Negroes?”
JFK, Civil Rights Address, June 11, 1963 (Excerpt)
