Free Shaquanda Cotton...Update--Released on Saturday, March 31, 2007
All she did was “push” a hall monitor/teacher assistant…All Emmett Till did some 52 years ago was “whistled” at a White lady and allegedly said “Hey baby”...And both became vicitims of a brutal White supremist judicial lynch system...
I first learned about the Shaquonda Cotton case courtesy of Mr. Fredric Mitchell of the YBP Guide...There's too many stories like this…Too many bad memories for Black folks too ponder...Like Emmett Till , Shaquonda Cotton got caught up in a place with an infamous history of some of the worst racial violence in the history of the nation…Mississippi the state where Emmett Till got killed lead the nation in lynching since the end of Reconstruction…Mississippi was so proficient and efficient in killing and disposing of Black men that many people both Black and White who lived in or near Money, Mississippi (where Emmett was slain) said that the Tallahatchie River (where a horribly disfigured Emmett Till was found with an eighty pound cotton gin engine wrapped around his neck) contained the bodies and remains of thousands of lynched Black men…
Paris, Texas has been known for taking lynching to an even greater art form of ghoulish exhibition and entertainment…The Paris Fairground (which should be known as the Killing Field) borne witness to some of the biggest lynchings on record…Tens of thousands of White folk would catch special trains, car pooled, ride horses and buggeys to see yet another Black man have his human and civil rights violated without a fair hearing before a jury of his peers or a chance to appeal…
The Black man would be beaten near an inch of his life and put on a platform several feet high above the crowd…Skinned alive, doused all over with kerosene, parts of the bodies such as fingers, toes, genitals cut off (some experts have argued that lynching is a form of s*xual aggression and voyeurism gone wild by the perpetrators and spectators) while the eyes are put out by red hot pokers…The helpless victim is then set ablaze while still alive…The body parts that were cut off and other bits and pieces that were not totally decimated by the human bonfire were then collected by audience members and perpetrators and kept as souvenirs...Sometimes the body parts would be put in jars and photos of the lynch victim would be taken and turned into postcards…Both of these items would be sold at stores throughout the country...
What type of White folks you think would commit these crimes and attend these events you may ask??? Well professional people like doctors, lawyers, teachers and business men would attend these events…Law enforcement officers, politicians and judges would attend these events…Clergymen and school aged children would attend these events…Rich and poor folks would attend these events…Young and old would attend these events…[Read More]
UPDATED ON SHAQUANDA COTTON:
Because of the "Power of the People" Shanquanda was released on Saturday, March 31, 2007. Read article on Details
I first learned about the Shaquonda Cotton case courtesy of Mr. Fredric Mitchell of the YBP Guide...There's too many stories like this…Too many bad memories for Black folks too ponder...Like Emmett Till , Shaquonda Cotton got caught up in a place with an infamous history of some of the worst racial violence in the history of the nation…Mississippi the state where Emmett Till got killed lead the nation in lynching since the end of Reconstruction…Mississippi was so proficient and efficient in killing and disposing of Black men that many people both Black and White who lived in or near Money, Mississippi (where Emmett was slain) said that the Tallahatchie River (where a horribly disfigured Emmett Till was found with an eighty pound cotton gin engine wrapped around his neck) contained the bodies and remains of thousands of lynched Black men…
Paris, Texas has been known for taking lynching to an even greater art form of ghoulish exhibition and entertainment…The Paris Fairground (which should be known as the Killing Field) borne witness to some of the biggest lynchings on record…Tens of thousands of White folk would catch special trains, car pooled, ride horses and buggeys to see yet another Black man have his human and civil rights violated without a fair hearing before a jury of his peers or a chance to appeal…
The Black man would be beaten near an inch of his life and put on a platform several feet high above the crowd…Skinned alive, doused all over with kerosene, parts of the bodies such as fingers, toes, genitals cut off (some experts have argued that lynching is a form of s*xual aggression and voyeurism gone wild by the perpetrators and spectators) while the eyes are put out by red hot pokers…The helpless victim is then set ablaze while still alive…The body parts that were cut off and other bits and pieces that were not totally decimated by the human bonfire were then collected by audience members and perpetrators and kept as souvenirs...Sometimes the body parts would be put in jars and photos of the lynch victim would be taken and turned into postcards…Both of these items would be sold at stores throughout the country...
What type of White folks you think would commit these crimes and attend these events you may ask??? Well professional people like doctors, lawyers, teachers and business men would attend these events…Law enforcement officers, politicians and judges would attend these events…Clergymen and school aged children would attend these events…Rich and poor folks would attend these events…Young and old would attend these events…[Read More]
UPDATED ON SHAQUANDA COTTON:
Because of the "Power of the People" Shanquanda was released on Saturday, March 31, 2007. Read article on Details
