Debate Now A lynching scarred this Georgia county. Is it willing to confront its dark past?

[1srelluc]

Well this is all an atrocity. Which goes without saying.

Think of it like a wound. Most people would like it to heal--I think? But there are a few people, for their own reasons and on all sides, who don't want it to heal, and will keep picking at any scab that forms. They will say they have good reason for doing so, but they don't. IMO their reasons are nefarious.

We have to ignore them. Otherwise we will lose our country--if we haven't already.

For those who want healing--what does that look like?

Big question

Scab-pickers.....Damn good analogy.....Then they wonder why (and blame others) for when the wound gets infected.

Who do I self-report to now?

 

[Calypso Jones]

I guess that would depend on whether you feel guilty about what happened or you lost a father or grandfather (or other relative) to a gang of ignorant rednecks (who were often not punished for their crimes).

That long ago you wouldn't have known them. The distance from that time...it's all history. So what you're saying is.... the talk would never end with the soul goal of continuing discontent and demands. What democrats do.

 

[Calypso Jones]

No. Do you put behind the Revolutionary War? And how do you figure we were on the way to racial healing until Obama? This is part of our history and it shows the long term damage that was caused.

you'll never be satisfied. Doesn't matter what you get.

 

[Calypso Jones]

Your point being it's been partisan all along, not ethnic or racial? The right should riot? Gather and hold public pity parties? Because "no doubt" and "Seems" to you? I believe the OP mentioned "Pathetic" and here you are.

It was the democrats doing these things. The first black congressmen were republicans. Here you are, running your mouth about something you know nothing about.

apt screen name.

 

[norwegen]

No. Do you put behind the Revolutionary War?

How stupid.

Britons in the 2020s don't maim and murder Americans now for anything that happened to their forebears from 1775 to 1883.

Slavery, Emmitt Till, and the Revolutionary War all make the history books because they're. . . get this . . . HISTORY.

 

[jwoodie]

As I was reading this story, several things crossed my mind. While I don't live in Cummings, Georgia, the refrain from this narrative is universal as it applies to the lives of Black Americans.

A woman is assaulted (a white woman) and then later dies of her injuries and the only three Black people in that area of Forsyth County at that time were accused of the crime. Based on a confession that is alleged to have been coerced, the 24 year old was arrested and jailed. Soon thereafter an angry white mob dragged him from his jail cell where he was riddled with bullets and beaten with a crowbar. I'm not sure how he was still alive after all of that but he was then "hitched onto the back of a wagon with a noose around his neck and eventually hanged in the Cumming town square" where people took turns throwing stones at him and shooting more bullets into his dead body while the mob cheered. The other two Black residents who were teenagers were later lynched after one-day expediated trials that precipitated the onslaught of racial violence and terror aimed at the county's Black residents, including the Ku Klux Klan Night Riders visiting terror upon them until they had driver every single Black person not just from Cummings, but all of Forsyth County. Forsyth remained all white for the next 75 years.

Emmitt Til, a 14 year old, who was kidnapped, and murdered by lynching for allegedly whistling at a white woman was one of the historical events that came to mind while I read this. The article also brought to mind the Tulsa race riot in the which the most affluent Black community in the country was torched, and bombed out of existence. On that case like this one, none of the Black business owners or residents were compensated for thier losses, with the insurance companies denying each and every single claims. The mob also robbed the Black banks and whoever the guarantors were at that time, refused to honor any of these claims as well.

While of all this is beyond horrendous, the insult to the injury however is that out of a mob of 3,000 people in Tulsa, and however many were participants in the Forsyth lynchings, not a single white person was ever arrested, let alone charged or made accountable for the crimes they committed and the harm they had inflicted. In the case of Emmitt Til he was murdered because a white woman sent someone after him, they admitted they did it, that she initiated it yet none of them have been held accountable.

If a person or entity has done something that has caused harm, no healing can occur if the entity or person keeps insisting that nothing occurred. That's where confronting the past comes in.

Is this possible? To confront the past so that we all can move on to a better future?

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A lynching scarred this Georgia county. Is it willing to confront its dark past?​

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[Zincwarrior]

Reported

For what? If you want to have a discussion have a discussion. Reporting people for merely disagreeing with you makes us want to ban YOU instead.

 

[task0778]

A lynching scarred this Georgia county. Is it willing to confront its dark past?​

What does 'confront' mean? What do you want done about it?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Thread closed. OP using thread to troll other posters and report everyone that disagrees with them don't waste Mod time like this again or private warning will attach substantial points.