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So... what are you implying with this avatar quote exactly?
Takes a special kind of lad to get upset on behalf of convicted participants of a lynching
So... what are you implying with this avatar quote exactly?
The part that struck me the most was how he still can't get over the anger. I know me, where I would want to go hunt down every last one of the little cunts and the willpower it takes not to give into that. Knowing he died because of some stupid racist little pieces of shit. Who are still crying it was youth and peer pressure. Bullshit.
The racism present was not the public and proud strain common in Americas past. This was racism clouded by denial and shame. Sarah Graves mother, Mary Miles Harvey, wrote a letter to the court saying that she didnt raise her daughter to be a racist. At Graves sentencing hearing, Judge Harvey Wingate called Harvey to the witness stand to ask her about the letter. He noted that Graves had told investigators that when her and her brothers rooms were messy, Harvey would tell them they were living like niggers. Harvey denied saying that.
I would have said Negroes, not niggers, she said. I just meant that their rooms were nasty, like a pigsty.
Wingate asked her what she thought the word nigger meant.
An ignorant, nasty person, Harvey said. I was taught in school that a nigger was a nasty person, and a Negro was a black person.
Lynchings in the South were not at all limited to extrajudicial punishment, Jeffries. African Americans were killed for every reason under the sun, as terrorizing black communities and asserting white dominance was the underlying motive.
Title is accurate.
No it is not, anymore than if you called the attacks in Paris a pogrom or a holocaust. A lynching is a politically sanctioned mob murdering someone. It describes the fear and terror of black life in the American South from 1865 to the 1960s when black people had to live in waking terror of not only being attacked, but the police and courts doing nothing about it. Whites in the South had so much freedom in this regard that they created postcards of lynchings and mailed them out to people.
This is a terrible attack, but the word lynching is to describe something far more horrible. The police and courts not only did something in this case, they are black themselves. Using it now dilutes and distorts its meaning so that people will be even more confused about the horror of the South and conversely, how powerful the changes MLK brought there with his marches and political activism.
It's a complete disrespect to their legacy and how bad it truly was back then to parade it out for every race crime. I'm not calling out OP or anyone else since BuzzFeed is just shallowly using it for shock value, just pointing out it's not a word that should be thrown around lightly.
LB is suffering from "technically correctis" aka pedantry syndrome.Sure it's not a lynching in the exact dictionary definition of the word, but there is such a thing as picking your outrage, ya know? When you seem more upset at the liberties of language than the actual atrocity being committed you might want to step back a little...
LB is suffering from "technically correctis" aka pedantry syndrome.Sure it's not a lynching in the exact dictionary definition of the word, but there is such a thing as picking your outrage, ya know? When you seem more upset at the liberties of language than the actual atrocity being committed you might want to step back a little...
I'm not sure I would describe his post as outraged.
...No it is not, anymore than if you called the attacks in Paris a pogrom or a holocaust. A lynching is a politically sanctioned mob murdering someone. It describes the fear and terror of black life in the American South from 1865 to the 1960s when black people had to live in waking terror of not only being attacked, but the police and courts doing nothing about it. Whites in the South had so much freedom in this regard that they created postcards of lynchings and mailed them out to people.
This is a terrible attack, but the word lynching is to describe something far more horrible. The police and courts not only did something in this case, they are black themselves. Using it now dilutes and distorts its meaning so that people will be even more confused about the horror of the South and conversely, how powerful the changes MLK brought there with his marches and political activism.
It's a complete disrespect to their legacy and how bad it truly was back then to parade it out for every race crime. I'm not calling out OP or anyone else since BuzzFeed is just shallowly using it for shock value, just pointing out it's not a word that should be thrown around lightly.
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"I sacrifice two BlackLivesMatter protestors..."
"To bring back Martin Luther King from the graveyard!"
MLK summon, and im out.
L.B. Jeffries said:Interests: Historical Fiction Writer