Morbid Fact Du Jour For October 19, 2011
Today’s Less Than Human Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Thousands of black men and women met a cruel death by lynching in the American South during the late 19th and early 20th century. Varying only in degrees of torture and brutality, these execution rituals were acted out in every part of the South. Sometimes in small groups, sometimes in massive numbers, whites combined the roles of judge, jury, and executioner. Newspaper reporters dutifully reported the events under such lurid headlines as “COLORED MAN ROASTED ALIVE,” describing in graphic detail the slow and methodical agony and death of the victim and devising a vocabulary that would befit the occasion. The public burning of a Negro would soon be known as a “Negro Barbecue,” reinforcing the perception of blacks as less than human.
Culled from: Without Sanctuary
TRUELY TASTELESS- HAVING AN Ad for the tasting table at the bottom, love to cook??? black barbeque????
@nancy
The content of ads are determined by an algorithm that looks at words in the post, such as “barbecue” or “roasted”, and designates ads that may be related to those terms. Nobody personally chose those ads to go along with this post.
There are ads on this site? Chrome must block them.
There are no ads on this site. I’ve no idea what you’re talking about.