In addition to the usual expected grovelling and corporate mea culpas the local NAACP is demanding Joe's Crab Shack
their crab buckets are delicious
Photo caption bubble reads: “All I said was I don’t like the Gumbo”.
Much ado about nothing.
If you can’t make fun of a lynching, then you just don’t have a sense of humor...
I think it is one of funny
No reason....Wrong is wrong.
What? Some prople can really mess up Gumbo.
I don’t see the big deal here.
Maybe in person you can tell who’s being hanged, but not from the photo. A generic picture of a hanging doesn’t necessarily imply racism.
That is NOT a lynching,it’s a public hanging.If the condemned happened to be black,well so be it.
Richard Burleson was a black man but to my knowledge, nobody in our family ever considered this a racial incident but just one man who killed another man and the killer happened to be black and the only anger was that our relative was murdered regardless of who did it. I do know that my grandfather and his brothers helped stop a lynching of Burleson so that he could at least get a fair trial and I'm proud of that fact. I'm very stunned that a restaurant chose to use this photo at a table with a caption that made a cartoon out of it since it's still a photo of a dead man regardless of what the situation was. I've been contacted by one national news reporter so far about my feelings on it and that's how I laid it out, just one man killed another man and the killer happened to be black. Just a fact of history and not an indictment of any group of people.
Some people go looking to be offended, even if it requires a magnifying glass.
I thought it was funny. In fact, I still do.
I ate at the Joe's Crab Shack on PCH in Newport a few months ago. Thought the food was mediocre at best and overpriced.
How can we be doomed to repeat history if we keep remembering it? </sarcasm>
I think that there is funny.
They put the FU in FUnny.
This is disgusting.
They need to fire the jackwagon who thought this was a good marketing campaign.
As with many stories that are handed down through the generations, some details get lost,
some are embellished and some are intentionally misleading. But, there is a basis of truth
in all of them. Below is an image that many Brown County residents have seen over the
years and has a metal tag identifying it as “The Last Brown County Hanging”. I had
speculated lately as if it was the execution of John Pearl that was executed in Coleman
County in 1901. It was pointed out to me, and was in the article about the hanging, that a
hole was cut through the roof inside the Jail and he was hung inside the building, not
outside.
If not Brown or Coleman County, then where was the picture taken? In discussing this
with an author, who has a book out soon about legal executions in Texas, he identified it
as a hanging that had occurred in Limestone County, Texas. On May 3, 1894, a pioneer
resident of Groesbeck, James Garrett McKinnon, was robbed and bludgeoned to death
with a stone. A man was arrested for the death, tried and convicted. The sentence was
hanging. Prior to 1903, death penalties were performed in the county seats of the
respective counties. After that date, the State of Texas carried out all executions at the
Huntsville Penitentiary.
On April 12, 1895, at Groesbeck, Texas, Limestone County, Richard Burleson was
hanged for the crime for which he had been convicted.
So, in this case the photo was of the last hanging in a county, but it was Limestone
County. Below is the photo we have here in Brown County and next to it is a sketch
made from the same photo, owned by the great grandson of the murder victim.
http://browncountytexasgenealogy.com/Articles/LastHanging