tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post111872847771538238..comments2024-02-08T05:04:18.484-08:00Comments on J'S THEATER: Senate Apologizes (Finally) for US LynchingJohn Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073378940347627766noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post-1119167618798040452005-06-19T00:53:00.000-07:002005-06-19T00:53:00.000-07:00When I went to see "Without Sancuary," at The Warh...When I went to see "Without Sancuary," at The Warhol a few years agao, I thought to myself, "Why am I here? I know this happened." <BR/><BR/>I understood when I sat down to watch the watchers. The exhibit presented evidence which contradicted the cultural/historic amnesia wo which many White Americans desperately cling. This thought was validated by reading the comments in a viewers book. They expressed shame, outrage, regret, but most of all, surprise. <BR/><BR/>Our White friends don't like to remember the past - because it makes them question their goodness and the goodness of those they love. Nobody wants to be connected to ignorant murderers, rapists, slave-owners or just plain racists. Yet, when we begin to examine history accurately - White people begin to see themselves and their ancestors in a less than pleasant light. So - they deny, forget, suppress.<BR/><BR/>So - it is no surprise at the roll call. Because some today still celebrate their accurate past while others wish nothing more than to run from it.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for reporting this John!Christina Springerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06344959813985960573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post-1118816795790412752005-06-14T23:26:00.000-07:002005-06-14T23:26:00.000-07:00Hey Reggie, I agree with your co-worker, though we...Hey Reggie, I agree with your co-worker, though we should put that on the list for Slavery, and ask for prime real estate (40 by several factors of 10) and more for lynching....<BR/><BR/>I think what Byrd suffered was a lynching, and there have been others in recent years. In the 1990s, there was the lynching of a young brotha in Concord, California, and there have been several strange hanging deaths of black males in Florida in the last decade, haven't there? And then there's Matthew Shepard, to give another, very different example.John Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073378940347627766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11122973.post-1118768578167528212005-06-14T10:02:00.000-07:002005-06-14T10:02:00.000-07:00One of my co-workers said, "I'd rather have my 40 ...One of my co-workers said, "I'd rather have my 40 acres and my mule, but...."<BR/><BR/>Thanks also for that non-cosponsoring "Role Call of Shame"<BR/><BR/>This is a good step, symbolic, but important. And you're right about 'recorded' lynchings, or what we tend to call lynching. James Byrd tied to the back of that truck in Texas seems in lynching's neighborhood -- and I remember hearing about a young man hung in a tree in the downtown court square/park in Mobile AL back in the early 1980's...wonder what you call that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com