Bury Me Broken

Anti-Lynching Bill and Race Politics

Also in the New York Times article on the Senate Anti-Lynching Bill was this:

"The memories were especially painful for the relatives of Anthony Crawford, whose family was torn apart by the lynching. Mr. Crawford had been a wealthy black landowner in Abbeville, S.C., a cotton farmer, registered voter and community leader who founded a school for black children and a union for black families. In 1916, after a dispute with a white man over the price of cotton seed, he was hanged from a pine tree and shot more than 200 times. His family lost his land, and the relatives scattered."

As many whites have been able to pass on their legacy including attaining an education, land, homes, inheritance or even just family stability, Blacks were crushed for decades after slavery and is a significant role in the legacy of projects, lack of education, poverty and even ignorance.

It was also interesting to know that Senator Allen has a Confederate flag flying and a noose in his office. Once again, that's racial politics at its finest.

"Others described the resolution as an act of expediency for Mr. Allen, who is a likely presidential candidate and who has been criticized for displaying a Confederate flag at his home and a noose in his law office. Mr. Allen said that they were part of collections of flags and Western paraphernalia..."

Senator Allen isn't representing Blacks with a noose in his office, or is he?

posted by niteskolar @ 5:46 PM