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comment by tla

It is terrifying. It's terrifying but predictable that some people are only just realizing it happens Especially since its been happening for quite a few generations now. There was this illusion that it stopped. It never did.

With each wave of new media there is an outcry as the reality sinks in to a new set of people.

But it was always there. Always. And some communities never got to forget.





deanSolecki  ·  3404 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It wasn't that long ago that happy, smiling white people took pictures with lynched black men.

What is surprising is that these things are coming back into the open, and our reaction so far has been very quiet. The horrible question is, how far does this have to go? Will we have Full Metal Jacket style mass executions before the injustice is too much for happy, smiling white people?

Economic and criminal reform should be the only thing that matters to anyone until the United States re-enters the civilized world.

tla  ·  3403 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know right.

The last recorded typical lynching was barely outside my lifetime. Lynch laws have been used as recently as 2006 and maybe even more recently that I'm not finding.