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Destroyed door at the east entrance of the Capitol: This was not a spontaneous attack
Photo: UPI / laif
On January 6, 2021, someone erected a gallows across from the Capitol.
There's a photo of a grinning white man standing on the pedestal waving a flag that says Keep America Great Again.
Another American story: When a plantation owner was murdered in Georgia on May 16, 1918, the year of the devastating flu pandemic, white mobs set up a brutal hunt.
They murdered 13 black people within two weeks.
On May 19, Mary Turner, whose husband had been lynched the day before, threatened to demand the arrest of those responsible.
As punishment for daring to speak up, an angry mob hung Mary Turner upside down, doused her with gasoline and oil, torched her clothes, cut open her stomach, and trampled the eight-month-old Fetus that fell on the floor, to death.
None of the terrorists have ever been brought to justice.
The lynching of black men, who were often accused of fabricated sexual assault on white women, was a spectacle and took place in a carnival atmosphere.
The events were planned in advance, took place in broad daylight, and drew large crowds of cheering white men, women and children.
This popular amusement should put the black population in their place and preserve white supremacy.
It was customary to take pieces of the burned and mutilated corpses home as souvenirs.
Photos captured the ritual murders.
In the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice Emma Coleman Jordan, a law professor at Georgetown University, wrote: “For me, the most terrifying thing about the photos was the sea of white faces in the crowd ... without hiding their face and without showing in any way that they were murdering.
The photos testify to the indisputable immunity from the law that whiteness gave them. "
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