Has anyone who has ever been in one of those crowds ever come forward and acknowledge how fucked up it all was. What has always horrified me the most about lynchings in the U.S, more than the sheer brutality even, is how big the mobs are.
So my friend works as a private live-in care giver for this 97 year old dude with dementia, he was telling me how one night the man got up and wanted to go tend to his farm (in winter at -35 degrees Celsius), as my friend was attempting to stop him the guy grabbed both his hands with what little strength he could muster and straight up told him if he tried to stop him again, he would have him linched. It was at that moment that I realized there are still individuals who either supported or participated in this kind of behavior who are alive today, and it scares me to think how they raised their children to think of people if color and how that still affects us today. Of course his 97 year old ass wasn't getting anyone linched (hopefully) but my friend never felt comfortable sleeping on that property again
CronkinOn on January 26th, 2022 at 08:45 UTC »
Are we not going to talk about how twisted you'd have to be to want to be in this photo op?
Widespread enough that all these dudes wanted in on the photo and felt justified/invulnerable.
billhyun on January 26th, 2022 at 10:08 UTC »
Has anyone who has ever been in one of those crowds ever come forward and acknowledge how fucked up it all was. What has always horrified me the most about lynchings in the U.S, more than the sheer brutality even, is how big the mobs are.
Mvuri_21 on January 26th, 2022 at 15:49 UTC »
So my friend works as a private live-in care giver for this 97 year old dude with dementia, he was telling me how one night the man got up and wanted to go tend to his farm (in winter at -35 degrees Celsius), as my friend was attempting to stop him the guy grabbed both his hands with what little strength he could muster and straight up told him if he tried to stop him again, he would have him linched. It was at that moment that I realized there are still individuals who either supported or participated in this kind of behavior who are alive today, and it scares me to think how they raised their children to think of people if color and how that still affects us today. Of course his 97 year old ass wasn't getting anyone linched (hopefully) but my friend never felt comfortable sleeping on that property again