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Post by Tamrin on Jan 2, 2010 6:49:49 GMT 10
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 9, 2010 9:47:30 GMT 10
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States
of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women
save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment
when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment
when the negro woman is the accusing party
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of
this crime [rape] against the women of his race by white men
than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the
creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled
fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture
and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound
he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses -
from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put
to death without judge or jury; so that, although the
political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale
murder of human beings went on just the same
The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants,
and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperiledIda B Wells-Barnett(Died this day 1892)   Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned
against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so |
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 30, 2010 12:09:39 GMT 10
The play is done, the crowds depart; and see that twisted tortured
thing hung from a tree, swart victim of a newer CalvaryCountee Cullen(Born this day 1903)  |
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