Lynching Museum To Open In Alabama

[sid]

What do you think about this?

https://eji.org/national-lynching-memorial

[barretcreek]

When Strom Thurmond was Gov. of South Carolina he put through an anti-lynching law. The memorial is overdue.

[clintonhater]

No such thing as a museum without a gift shop. Wonder if souvenir hangman's nooses be offered for sale.

[Sandpebble]

I'd visit that memorial with hat in hand. Not as an apologist but as one who recognizes some of our past history as evil.

We are willing to accept the hatred the Germans had for Jews as evil ... well lets look ourselves in the eye.

I tell my wife from South America that in my lifetime there was seperate drinking fountains for blacks .... she can't even comprehend it.

First construction job I ever worked in the deep south was with a man who boasted one of his prize possesions was a photo taken by his uncle of three blacks hanging in a tree . I mentioned that just like "To Kill a Mocking Bird " most of the lynchings occurred after an accusation of attempted rape.

His response was that " It just goes to show... them sonsabitches is prone to rape "

The incredible hatred of Jim Crow may be burried ... but not deeply .

Those victims ... on the whole ... are worthy of that memorial

[togor]

No such thing as a museum without a gift shop. Wonder if souvenir hangman's nooses be offered for sale.

Maybe souvenir playing cards with the mug shots of arrested klansmen.

[Vern Humphrey]

What do you think about this?

https://eji.org/national-lynching-memorial

Why Alabama? As I recall, the state with the most lynchings was Indiana.

[togor]

Why Alabama? As I recall, the state with the most lynchings was Indiana.

The history of the settlement of Indiana is interesting.

[clintonhater]

More interesting: who paid for it? NOT any of the many black billionaires in this country, you can be sure. Rather, another application of the extortion tactics raised to an art form by Jessie Jackson--who has for the last 40 yrs supported himself & his organization by putting the bite on gutless corporate America. "Racism" is not an accusation any Fortune 500 company is willing to risk.

[JB White]

Curious as to how they compiled all the undocumented/unreported incidents.

[sid]

One thing puzzles me. How could there be EXACTLY 4000 lynchings? Where are the names and who counted them?