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Lynching memorial recognizes victims of racial violence in America
ABC News 7 ^ | April 26, 2018 | Danny Clemens

Posted on 04/26/2018 7:42:09 PM PDT by artichokegrower

A memorial that honors thousands of victims of lynching and explores the lasting impact the practice had on American culture is now open in Alabama.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7news.com ...


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Beyond lynching, the memorial also explores other aspects of racial inequality and injustice as they relate to the African American experience. It recognizes the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow laws and the civil rights movement and confronts police violence and other contemporary issues facing communities of color.


This is racial healing?

1 posted on 04/26/2018 7:42:10 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

“...thousands of victims of lynching...”

Thomas Sowell writes that there were about 500 lynchings from 1865 to 1955 or so.


2 posted on 04/26/2018 7:44:06 PM PDT by odawg
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To: artichokegrower

Getting sick of living in the past. If you’re black, Asian, white, or anything, just be grateful every waking hour that you live in this the greatest country on God’s green earth.


3 posted on 04/26/2018 7:44:21 PM PDT by Sedona13
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To: odawg

Regardless of the facts, the degenerate Left needs its victims to survive.

Love Sowell.


4 posted on 04/26/2018 7:47:29 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Sedona13

>> Getting sick of living in the past.

Ironic it’s the “forward-thinking progressives” that depend on the past.


5 posted on 04/26/2018 7:48:34 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Sedona13

If you’re black, Asian, white, or anything, just be grateful every waking hour that you live in this the greatest country on God’s green earth.
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Wakanda? ;-)


6 posted on 04/26/2018 7:49:26 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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........."inequality and injustice as they relate to the African American?"........


7 posted on 04/26/2018 7:51:30 PM PDT by caww
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My grand parents were at the lynching of Marshall Ratliff in Eastland, TX.

The guy was white and on Death Row.

*See The Santa Clause Bank Robbery.

8 posted on 04/26/2018 7:52:34 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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A lot of the early lynchings were of Republicans.


9 posted on 04/26/2018 7:58:20 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a doctor and I won't touch that thing)
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Lynching does not imply innocence. When one goes back and reads the details of these cases, there are usually numerous witnesses to the crimes for which the person was lynched.

The crime in lynching was primarily that the guilty party was deprived of his Constitutional rights to due process. I'm sure there were instances when a innocent person may have been lynched. But for the majority of cases there is usually a body of strong evidence that the lynched party was guilty.
 

10 posted on 04/26/2018 8:06:49 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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Let’s look at more recent history, such as the case of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. Warning, it’s sickening beyond belief. It didn’t get much publicity, of course.


11 posted on 04/26/2018 8:10:14 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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I daresay more Black on white murders is >> than black lynchings.


12 posted on 04/26/2018 8:11:50 PM PDT by Fhios (Mr. Magoo, where are you?)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Reconstruction in Texas was violent.

The History Channel was to air a series on reconstruction in Texas...Did not go past the first episode before it was cancelled.

13 posted on 04/26/2018 8:14:14 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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“Lynching memorial recognizes victims of racial violence in America”

Will there be a plaque nearby to place the issue in context?

I never read about a historic monument that is being allowed to stand these days without someone suggesting that a college professor be paid to create a plaque to place the monument “in context.”


14 posted on 04/26/2018 8:15:33 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: House Atreides

Lol. Wakanda! Wakanda! Wakanda!


15 posted on 04/26/2018 8:15:51 PM PDT by Sedona13
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To: artichokegrower

What about all the Lynchings for Stealing Horses and Cattle????


16 posted on 04/26/2018 8:16:30 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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But for the majority of cases there is usually a body of strong evidence that the lynched party was guilty................................ Would that apply to, say, Saint Kittles?


17 posted on 04/26/2018 8:17:40 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn Tag line, fouled up again, thanks cursor.)
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To: artichokegrower

In the history of the world people of all race, creed, and colors have been enslaved. Atrocities of all kinds have happened, people have not only been lynched but butchered by armies and rulers of all stripes. Yet here in America everything is set in Black vs White and Racism is and will be pushed by those very people who say they abhor it.

Witness Kayne West, he is a friend of Trump’s and proclaims it and what happens. He is totally excoriated by the Democrats and the rest of the Left Wing Liberals who practice their Hypocrisy and mendacity everyday.


18 posted on 04/26/2018 8:21:17 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Sedona13

Getting sick of living in the past. If you’re black, Asian, white, or anything, just be grateful every waking hour that you live in this the greatest country on God’s green earth.

YES!!!!


19 posted on 04/26/2018 8:23:28 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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I’ll never forget that as long as I live. Those poor kids met up with demonic savages that night. God bless their families........;(


20 posted on 04/26/2018 8:26:00 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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