More than 4,000 black people were lynched in the South where are their monuments?
Moyers & Company
24 Aug 2017 at 13:09 ET
Recent events in Charlottesville have renewed the debate around whether to take down Confederate memorials and statues, but the latest short film from the Equal Justice Institutes Lynching in America project shows that much more is needed to truly confront the bitter legacy of slavery and racial injustice.
Abbeville chronicles the unveiling of a historical marker dedicated to the brutal death of Anthony Crawford a century ago. Lynched in the town square of Abbeville, South Carolina, Crawford was a successful African-American farmer who argued with a white merchant for a fair price for cottonseed. For his crime, he was publicly stabbed, shot and hanged by a white mob, and his family was subsequently run out of town. Crawfords murder counts as just one of the 4,084 racial terror lynchings identified by EJI in 12 Southern states between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and 1950, and yet is one of only a handful of deaths recognized today by public markers.
In fact, the Abbeville memorial is one of six lynching markers erected by EJI as part of an effort to force Americans to face our history of racial terror and reshape the national narrative about race. The other five can be found in LaGrange, Georgia, and four cities in Alabama. EJI is working with communities to install more. But its still a far cry from the more than 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces that the Southern Poverty Law Center has mapped:
(Map at link)
In addition to the more than 700 Confederate monuments and statues on public property throughout the country, there are at least 109 public schools named after prominent Confederates, many with large African-American student populations.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/more-than-4000-black-people-were-lynched-in-the-south-where-are-their-monuments/
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)who just bought a $90 mil house, Michael Jordan, Spike Lee, could chip in for statues and small parks to their ancestors. I understand a lot of this is covered in the Black History Museum, but it would be good to have 100 small parks around the US. For that matter, wealthy people of all colors could help.
murielm99
(30,733 posts)Do people have a problem with successful black women? How many houses does Sarandon own?
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)any Dem, regardless of color, who has that much money for needless rooms in a house, should be contributing a significant amount of that, maybe the equivalent of 50 rooms when it has 100, to organizations like Save the Children, SPLC or other causes. Be rich. Show it off, if you need too, but beyond some level of self indulgence and ritzy show, IMHO, it's just pure self indulgence, without bounds. It sets a bad example for younger folks who admire them. This includes Justin Beaver, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Johnny Depp & others, a couple of whom, I like.
murielm99
(30,733 posts)about how much Beyonce gives back:
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/beyonce-named-most-charitable-celeb-2016-w457809
If she wants a big house, who cares?