The Last Lynching

The Last Lynching was such a lugubrious and a time of antipathy during the Lynching Era. The Lynching Era occurred in the years 1921 until the year of 1963; which was a fifty year period. The Last Lynching, aired on the discovery channel, was about the era in which lynching was practiced. In the time of the lynching era if you were black you had a strike against you especially if you were black and a man you had two strikes against you. It is very hard to look at how the blacks were treated in those terrible times. The ku klux klan did not a have any remorse of who their next victim would be. Sadly some of the victims would be women. For example, the Rosewood masscre, Levy County. This was the story of which "a little white lie" led to a genocide of the black community of Rosewood, FL. Prayerfully many fled on a train of safety to Gainesville, FL. Fannie Taylor was the woman who came running out of her house proclaimed a black man came to her house in the morning and raped and beat her. Her lie spreaded like a conflagration and because of that men, women, children and babies were brutally murdered. These cravern lynching mobs would lynch African Americans due to false accusations regarding the law, to prohibit blacks from voting and participating in politics, and to put fear in their hearts. This documentary was an eye opener because this made me think about the people who were lynched just for standing up for a cause as little as sitting in a restaurant just so I can receive the same service as a white counterpart. I believe that all of our black males and females should have watched this viewing because we have seemed to have lost the pride and value of ourselves even when it was involuntarily taken away from us. It even showed how they would lynch us for our nature and race; most of the times it was for recreation. Where did you think the words "picnic " and "barbecue" were depicted from; pick-a-nigger and they would literally tie down their victim set them on fire and watch them burn for fun. They would even use these vivid scene on post card to send to their families in different areas. Today you don't see the kkk's as dominant as before, not saying they are wiped off the face of the earth; but we are still holding their legacy to genocide our own race. So they just sit back and watch what they have created in their efforts of white supremacy, to see the race they tried to destroy, kill each other. Could you imagine your husband, father, brother, son or even your mother being lynched because of our gender and their race? Hard to imagine. So let us not forget where we came from and the lives that were laid down so that we can have the opportunities they fought for us to have.