This type of story makes me angry first, and then it makes me cry... Anger that any society could wholeheartedly endorse such behavior (as white society did) even after other cases like this were exposed for the shameful lie that they were.
Then I cry for the loss of innocence, the loss of hope, and the loss of life, life that didn't need to be lost, life that was never allowed to grow into it's full potential....
That's not all that I feel when I hear a story such as this one. There's a mix of horror and hurt when I think that so many whites to this day will deny such things as this (or Rosewood) ever happened, or that blacks were ever anything more than common laborers and drunks, that they never did and never could amount to anything . When blacks did rise to the status of whites, without any help from them, everything the blacks had was destroyed and/or taken away, like The Black Wall Street in the neighborhood of Greenwood, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There's so much that black folks had that the government and white society made sure they didn't keep; it was as if (IMO) whites were intimidated by the intellect of the blacks, who they were told in the beginning were no better than animals. Why do you think it was such a crime initially to teach a black person to read? It was because (IMO) they knew that blacks were people who were just as intelligent as they were, and would rise to the station (and above) of white society. After all, no one objected if you tried to teach a dog to read, did they?
Here's a video of another atrocity that I came across today. Pay particular attention to the age of one of the accused, and where they said he was that night. How was he accused, let alone convicted? Because the whites wanted some black person to be guilty, despite what they knew to be the truth.
Groveland, Florida in 1949
Video posted on YouTube by Truth and Edutainment on April 23, 2017. For more of their videos, click on the name.
To read about Rosewood, Florida or the Black Wall Street, simply click on the names in the post.
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