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I was reading about the word lynch and where it originated.. seems there are a few different stories and no one seems to know which is true.... Of course lyching went on in other countries too but seems to have gained in popularity in the US South... what kind of people were these morons who took the law into their own hands to humiliate, torture and murder other human beings in a public exhibition sometimes with children watching, then kept momentos of the event with pieces of the lynched humans or postcards of the event...........This would be the same people who went to church on Sunday.....
Well Dizzy, to be fair, being drawn and quartered was quite the entertainment in the public square back in the old country.
But... I grew up on our family farm that had been there since colonial days (in southern US) and did not know until I was in my 60s that there had been a hanging tree on the property. It was in this creepy solumn section of woods and it just didn't surprise me when Mom (92 yrs) told me. She said she had never been there and the men wouldn't talk about it.
interesting topic Dizzy. May get some stories or explanations
But the post cards. That was bad. I think that would have been in about the 1930s? In the 1870s -1900 in the west was a totally different story of how that went down.
It's what happens when you don't think other human beings are, well, human beings or, at best -- not white. Blacks, Italians, Asians, Mexicans, a few Jews, etc. where the victims of lynchings.
It's what happens when you don't think other human beings are, well, human beings or, at best -- not white. Blacks, Italians, Asians, Mexicans, a few Jews, etc. where the victims of lynchings.
Yes indeed. My MIL from eastern Pennsylvania told me about Polish or Roma being lynched and cross burned when she was a child. 1930s or so?
again, I separate the growing west lynching stuff since OP said postcards. still bad but tough lives, tough people, tough stuff.
It's what happens when you don't think other human beings are, well, human beings or, at best -- not white. Blacks, Italians, Asians, Mexicans, a few Jews, etc. where the victims of lynchings.
I read that Welsh were picked on too.. shameful and they called themselves Christian...
Well Dizzy, to be fair, being drawn and quartered was quite the entertainment in the public square back in the old country.
But... I grew up on our family farm that had been there since colonial days (in southern US) and did not know until I was in my 60s that there had been a hanging tree on the property. It was in this creepy solumn section of woods and it just didn't surprise me when Mom (92 yrs) told me. She said she had never been there and the men wouldn't talk about it.
interesting topic Dizzy. May get some stories or explanations
But the post cards. That was bad. I think that would have been in about the 1930s? In the 1870s -1900 in the west was a totally different story of how that went down.
They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tightrope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad, they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row
-Bob Dylan, "Desolation Row" (1965)
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Its hard to take in what IM reading and seeing..... it seems black babies were also used as alligator bait.....my god what was wrong with these evil monsters....
Its hard to take in what IM reading and seeing..... it seems black babies were also used as alligator bait.....my god what was wrong with these evil monsters....
I was just about to post that, it shocked me when I hard about it. Some truly horrific postcards of that activity. I hope we are better now.
I was just about to post that, it shocked me when I hard about it. Some truly horrific postcards of that activity. I hope we are better now.
I find it hard to believe that churchgoers and most back then were...could even think about doing these things to another human being.
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