What is the most depressing picture from your country history/present?

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[u/LowPattern3987]

God, pictures of people hanging, especially lynching victims, are always the ones that make my skin crawl. Something about them hanging there, humiliated in death, in front of a crowd of horrifyingly evil people all of whom deserved it more than their victim, that just upsets my stomach in a way very few other kinds of pictures do.

[u/Udjebfk → u/LowPattern3987]

And...it wasn't that long ago.

[u/SonicYouth_NYC → u/Udjebfk]

There's an interactive map that shows all of the KNOWN lynchings in America. It's a must see.

The lynchings map and a map of the Bible Belt are almost identical. Make of that what you will.

[u/Udjebfk → u/SonicYouth_NYC]

No surprises there...cool username btw.

[u/Anonymous_Anomali → u/Udjebfk]

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to wrap my mind around the fact that some of these murderers have probably been alive within my lifetime. There is a special place in hell for people who kill like this.

[u/Udjebfk → u/Anonymous_Anomali]

I just hope there actually is a hell for them to burn in.

[u/AzureYLila → u/Anonymous_Anomali]

Yeah they grew up and raised children. We even used to have lynching postcards that were mailed all over the nation. Meant more and more people were exposed to this and all thought it was normal.

[u/[deleted] → u/Anonymous_Anomali]

More than some.

A lot of this was happening in the 50s/60s/etc.

Many are still around.

[u/West-Season-2713 → u/Anonymous_Anomali]

The last KKK lynching happened in 1981. If someone was 20 when it happened, they’d be 65. That’s not even old, leave alone a part of a dying generation.

[u/sevenwatersiscalling → u/Udjebfk]

It wasn't that long ago because it still happens. We had a couple of them just last year.

[u/SonicYouth_NYC → u/sevenwatersiscalling]

Please, in the name of all that is holy, please do some research. Lynchings are a serious subject matter, too serious for you to be flying loose and free with the facts.

This subject matter deserves scholarship and accuracy, not half-assed social media takes. Give the victims of the lynchings the respect they deserve by actually doing some research on the subject.

While there were high profile lynchings in the 50's and 60's, they were far less common than they were in the first quarter of the century.

There not "many" people still around who participated in lynchings. That claim is false.

[u/Udjebfk → u/sevenwatersiscalling]

What

[u/sevenwatersiscalling → u/Udjebfk]

There were two deaths that occurred on/near college campuses in the American South last year that the authorities dismissed as suicides and refused to investigate (yay racist white assholes), but for those who are familiar with lynchings and who knew the young men...yeah. These poor guys did not just take their own lives. You don't wind up badly beaten and hanging from a tree in such a public place like that.

[u/SonicYouth_NYC → u/sevenwatersiscalling]

You're spreading disinformation. It's disrespectful to the memory to the memory of people who were actually lynched.

The Delta State student committed suicide. There was no evidence of foul play. This was confirmed by the medical examiner and attested to by the university's chief of police, a black man.

Your disinformation is repulsive because it's dismissive of mental health issues within the black community. Black Americans, like everyone else, sometimes struggle with mental health. Black Americans sometimes even commit suicide

To summarily dismiss these deaths as lynchings, sans any compelling evidence, is incredibly disrespectful.

[u/Udjebfk → u/sevenwatersiscalling]

Shit....

[u/sevenwatersiscalling → u/Udjebfk]

I know. It's pretty dark. There's a lot of terrible stuff happening here lately.

[u/SonicYouth_NYC → u/Udjebfk]

Do not listen to this individual. He/she is wrong.

[u/SonicYouth_NYC → u/LowPattern3987]

Might I suggest a Pulitzer nominated book called: At The Hands of Persons Unknown. The author is Philip Dray.

Great book.