#lynchings — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lynchings, aggregated by home.social.
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#OTD (May 5) in 1891, a grand jury at #NewOrleans found justification for a vigilante force that broke into a prison and murdered 11 suspected #Mafia members.
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/05/1891-grand-jury-indicts-bribers-defends.html
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CW: U.S. Politics, Mississippi, lynchings
It's September 2025, and two Black men were lynched in Mississippi on Monday the 15th.
Cops may rule these suicide, as they've done in the past when Black men are found hanging from trees in the state, but given Mississippi's own history, the state of the U.S. today, and the fact that cops lie every time they say or write anything, I'm betting it's lynchings.
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#TreyReed #CoryZukatis #Mississippi #USPolitics #Lynchings
https://blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-two-men-were-found-hanging-in-mississippi
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Northeastern University: Archive of racial homicides expands, exposing history that’s ‘not easy to grapple with’. “[Sidney Batiste and Dorothy Godley] are two of the more than 290 names recently added to the Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice (CRRJ) clinic at Northeastern University. The archive is one of the most comprehensive digital records of […]
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Five years ago I posted this.
Many dismissed it out of hand without doing their due diligence. I would ask these people to look into their souls to question what it is about themselves that(1/6)
#blackhistory #blackpeople #whitepeople #whitedevil #lynchings #blackmastodon
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#Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn #BlackHistory lessons their schools don’t teach
By KATE PAYNE
Updated 12:15 AM EST, December 21, 2024TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — "Buried among Florida’s manicured golf courses and sprawling suburbs are the artifacts of its slave-holding past: the long-lost cemeteries of enslaved people, the statutes of #Confederate soldiers that still stand watch over town squares, the old #plantations turned into modern subdivisions that bear the same name. But many students aren’t learning that kind of Black history in Florida classrooms.
"In an old wooden bungalow in Delray Beach, Charlene Farrington and her staff gather groups of teenagers on Saturday mornings to teach them lessons she worries that public schools won’t provide. They talk about #SouthFlorida’s #Caribbean roots, the state’s dark history of #lynchings, how #segregation still shapes the landscape and how #grassroots #activists mobilized the #CivilRights Movement to upend generations of oppression.
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"When Sulaya Williams’ eldest child started school, she couldn’t find the comprehensive instruction she wanted for him in their area. So in 2016, she launched her own organization to teach Black history in community settings.
"'We wanted to make sure that our children knew our stories, to be able to pass down to their children,' Williams said.
"Williams now has a contract to teach Saturday school at a public #library in Fort Lauderdale, and her 12-year-old daughter Addah Gordon invites her classmates to join her.
"'It feels like I’m really learning my culture. Like I’m learning what my ancestors did,' Addah said. 'And most people don’t know what they did.'"
#BlackHistoryMatters #KnowledgeIspower #BlackLivesMatter #DeSantisSucks
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#Trump’s #glorification of the #1890s in #America displays his #dangerous #ignorance of #economics and #history.
The 1890s were a period of entrenched #WhiteSupremacy, marked by the rise of #JimCrow, widespread #RacialSegregation, and violent #Lynchings. #Racism dominated society, marginalizing #BlackAmericans and reinforcing #WhiteDominance in #politics and daily life, contradicting any Trump-glorified vision of #NationalGreatness.
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Five Black & Brown Men Have Been Recently Found Hanged in Public. Were Some of Them Lynched? | Democracy Now! #lynchings #blacklivesmatter
Remember this from 2020?
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/22/us_public_hangings_lynching_history
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On This Date:
On 20 April 1939, US jazz singer
#Billie #Holiday released the song
"#Strange #Fruit."The song was originally written as a poem by a Jewish songwriter, #Abel #Meeropol,
who wrote it in protest and response to the photo of
the #lynchings of J. Thomas #Shipp, 18, and Abraham S. #Smith, 19 in Marion, Indiana.Meeropol performed this poem under a pseudonym, Lewis Allan, with the name "Bitter Fruit" and eventually published this work in a teacher’s union publication under the title "Strange Fruit."
Meeropol got it handed to a nightclub owner who showed it to Billie Holiday.
---Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar treesPastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning fleshHere is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crophttps://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12659/strange-fruit-released
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"''Strange Fruit,' written by Jewish schoolteacher Abel Meeropol in 1937, takes a harrowing and unflinching look at American #racism. The poem specifically focuses on the horrific #lynchings that took place primarily across the American South...The poem became most famous as a song performed by Billie Holiday in 1939 and played a significant role in the #CivilRightsMovement." LitCharts #BHM #MusicWomenWednesday #jazz #jazzvocals
https://youtu.be/Web007rzSOI?si=dwHoAla8mdhVK7Mc -
#History #InteractiveMap #Lynchings
The real terrorists were white Christians.
https://plaintalkhistory.com/monroeandflorencework/explore/map2/#3.15/39.1/-79.82
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Supreme Court asks Centre, six States to respond to plea on lynchings
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal began by requesting the court not to tell him to go to the High Courts. He said the incidents span across multiple States and the victims should not be made to go to all these High Courts.#lynchings #SupremeCourt #HinduMobs #maharashtra #haryana #MadhyaPradesh #rajasthan #odisha #bihar #hindutva #muslims #minorities #UnionGovt #BJP #india
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CW: Long thread/7
#5yrsago The American Conservative: “The Dickensian Return of #DebtorsPrisons” https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-dickensian-return-of-debtors-prisons/
#5yrsago As hoax-fueled #lynchings continue in India, #Whatsapp puts limits on video-forwarding https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/whatsapp-launches-new-controls-after-widespread-app-fueled-mob-violence-in-india/2018/07/19/64433ec9-c944-446f-8d82-8498234ee8a9_story.html
#5yrsago In-depth look at the Financial Times’ weekly guide to ostentatious status goods for tasteless one-percenters https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/19/how-to-spend-it-the-shopping-list-for-the-1-percent
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#isabelwilkerson #Caste in her chapter #TheEvilOfSilence, shares stories of #lynchings. In America. Burning people at the stake. In America.
Crowds gathered to celebrate the torture. In America. Souvenirs people were awarded or bought of said torture. In America.In America. In America. Yes, in America.
This is who many of us were. Who are we now? Who are you now?
Our history. #CRT
Truth is knowledge—Knowledge is power—Silence is evil—Repression of knowledge is evil. #BookBans
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If there was violence against Muslims in India, would their population be growing, says Finance Minister
Says those blaming India on minority issues have no clue about ground realities.
#CommunalViolence #muslims #HateCrime #lynchings #CowLynchings #CowVigilantism #ReligiousFreedom #HinduMobs #NirmalSitharaman #BJP #VHP #RSS #hindutva #MuslimPopulation #minorities #HumanRights #india
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Blocking of BBC Modi documentary violates Indians’ rights, say over 500 scientists and academicians
The Centre’s stand that the documentary undermines India’s sovereignty and integrity does not withstand scrutiny, they contended.
#BBC #documentary #NarendraModi #modi #censorship #BJP #PressFreedom #GujaratPogrom #GujaratRiots #communalism #lynchings #muslims #resistance #india
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Mewat lynching: Slain Muslim man booked for cow slaughter, Police refuses to file FIR against Bajrang Dal
“In the presence of police, Monu [a ringleader of cow vigilante group] held us from 5:00 AM till 10:00 AM and kept torturing us,” Shaukeen, who was with Warish, said in a recording.
#mewat #CowLynching #lynchings #haryana #nuh #hussainpur #CowVigilantism #hindutva #BajrangDal #BJP #muslims #CommunalViolence #india
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BBC Documentary's New Episode Claims Modi ‘Hugely Divisive’, ‘His New India’ in ‘Religious Turmoil’
The second episode looks at the BJP government’s relationship with the rise in lynchings, reading down of Article 370, CAA and communal violence in Delhi.
#BBC #documentary #NarendraModi #modi #BJP #GujaratPogrom #GujaratRiots #lynchings #CAA #NRC #RSS #DelhiPogrom #article370abrogation #hindutva #fascism #HumanRights #citizenship #ReligiousFreedom #india
https://thewire.in/communalism/bbc-documentary-narendra-modi-second-episode
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https://archive.org/details/settlersmemes
Settlers: Memes of the White “Proletariat”
Topics
#SettlersTheMythologyoftheWhiteProletariat, #memes, #unitedstatesofamerika, #JSakai, #whitesupremacy, #genocide, #lynchings, #lynchmobs, #xenophobia, #imperialism, #history, #classcollaboration, #antiblackracism, #settlercolonialism, #slavercolonialism, #slavercolonizers, #socialchauvinisma collection of memes based on an early edition cover of Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat which elaborate the book's thesis.
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Juvenile Justice Board in Rajasthan's Alwar district defers judgment on sentencing of two minors convicted by it in #PehluKhan #Lynchings case of 2017 [PTI]
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There's no point engaging with #Bhakts anyway. If Mota bhai gave them shit wrapped in paan they'd still eat it arguing there's no scientific study which conclusively proves eating shit is bad for health.
But the politically ignorant and indifferent #Indian population, that's the one who needs to be confronted.
Since 2014, Indian #Muslims have witnessed the following:
1. Mob #lynchings on suspicions of eating beef or transporting cattle