14 year old black boy who was executed in 1944 found innocent

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

http://thegrio.com/2014/12/17/george-stinney-exonerated/

Fucking sad man.

[Technique]

1944? That's digging deep

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

1944? That's digging deep

??? It was just announced

[spurraider21]

??? It was just announced
did you really misunderstand that post? :lol

[Technique]

Alert Al Sharpton

[TDMVPDPOY]

said person...wont get paid?

[Avante]

In his book "SATCHMO" Louis Armstrong talks about growing up around the Storyville region of New Orleans. Yep, the red light district. He talks about how a night didn't go by where he didn't hear gun shots. He talks about how the law simply stayed out of that region, it was....the hell with it, let those jiggabos kill themselves off (not unlike the Middle East). Now that was way back around the turn of the century, long before 1944. But we still saw racial predjudices/discrimination in the 40's. Blacks still sitting in the back of the bus. Being beaten if anyone suspected them of looking at a white woman.

But......if ya keep up with what's going on in Africa, they treat themselves just as bad. Just as they do on the streets here in the USA.

I recommend the books of James Baldwin/Richard Wright....and "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, if anyone is interested in te black life here in America.

[The Gemini Method]

There's a book about organized lynching called Without Sanctuary...really interesting to see how a spectacle was made out of these public lynchings.

[Avante]

There's a book about organized lynching called Without Sanctuary...really interesting to see how a spectacle was made out of these public lynchings.

That's how it is today in Saudia Arabia and public beheadings.

[The Gemini Method]

That's how it is today in Saudia Arabia and public beheadings.

Most definitely so. However, we are a different society that tends to hide the past like a dirty secret shame. You know, well, I won't mention the ghosts of anyone's past...for a "civilized" nation it does much to hide from its not always brilliance.

[Trill Clinton]

There's a book about organized lynching called Without Sanctuary...really interesting to see how a spectacle was made out of these public lynchings.

yea man, lynchings were family affairs. people brought the kids out and everything. pretty sick when you think about it.


More:

Following Stinney's arrest, Stinney's father was fired from his job. Stinney's parents and siblings were given the choice of leaving town or being lynched. The family was forced to flee, leaving George with no support
during his 81-day confinement and trial. The entire Stinney trial, including jury selection, took one day. Stinney's court-appointed defense counsel was a tax commissioner campaigning for election to local political office. Stinney's lawyer did not challenge the three police officers who testified Stinney confessed to the two murders, despite this being the only evidence presented by the prosecution. The police did not make written records of Stinney's purported confession, and at trial, Stinney denied confessing to the crime.

The jury at Stinney's trial consisted entirely of white people due to black people being denied the right to vote, which was required for people to serve as jurors. Other than the testimony of the three police officers, at trial prosecutors called three inconsequential witnesses: the man who discovered the bodies of the two girls, and the two doctors who performed the post mortem examination. Stinney's counsel did not call any witnesses. Trial presentation lasted two-and-a-half hours. The jury took ten minutes to deliberate, after which they returned with a guilty verdict.

[DMC]

In his book "SATCHMO" Louis Armstrong talks about growing up around the Storyville region of New Orleans. Yep, the red light district. He talks about how a night didn't go by where he didn't hear gun shots. He talks about how the law simply stayed out of that region, it was....the hell with it, let those jiggabos kill themselves off (not unlike the Middle East). Now that was way back around the turn of the century, long before 1944. But we still saw racial predjudices/discrimination in the 40's. Blacks still sitting in the back of the bus. Being beaten if anyone suspected them of looking at a white woman.

But......if ya keep up with what's going on in Africa, they treat themselves just as bad. Just as they do on the streets here in the USA.

I recommend the books of James Baldwin/Richard Wright....and "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison, if anyone is interested in te black life here in America.

What kind of douche nozzle says something like "he talked about...." then "yep... the Red Light district" as if the audience is hanging on your every word. Idiot.

[spurraider21]

yea man, lynchings were family affairs. people brought the kids out and everything. pretty sick when you think about it.
true. same shit with execuation by hanging in general, or the french with the guillotines... but lynching is another level since it wasn't even law enforcement. sad shit

[CosmicCowboy]

it was a mercy killing. It saved the young man from the Hell of being Black in the USA in the 50's the 60's the 70's the 80's, the 90's, 2000's and the 2010's.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Water under the bridge

[Bender]

diversion... from all the black stuff going on now