RIP.
Mary Turner was burned alive, they then cut her open and stomped the baby to death.
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This is when I loved hip hop. Cats would drop songs like these as singles.
A Black man speaking of protecting and uplifting his ppl is a message the powers that be don't want to be portrayed today. Just look at the garbage they promote today.
ReturnOfJudah
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Thank The Most High we grew up in our era. This kids these days are fukked. Getting fed BS at every angle
Man, I'm thankful that we grew up where a message wasn't seen as "corny"
Fillerguy
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Bump
Hathaway
Someday, We'll All Be Free
I've read countless books on the horrors humans have inflicted on other humans. However, I am always amazed at how deprived the white man (and woman) can be in his imagination. They really sit atop the pyramid as the most despicable, ruthless and monstrous people this planet has and will ever know. This story and hundreds of others like it is a necessary reminder to me to not get too comfortable around these people in my day to day life; for one can never know what devious schemes they harbor in their sick minds.
get these nets
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Bullet-pocked marker memorializing 1918 lynching goes on display in Atlanta
12/05/25
ATLANTA (AP) — A historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized in recent years is now safely on display in Atlanta in an exhibit that opens Monday.
It memorializes an event that some people in rural southern Georgia have tried hard to erase: the killing of Mary Turner by a white mob that was bent on silencing her after she demanded justice for the lynching of her husband, Hayes Turner, and at least 10 other Black people.
Pocked with bullet holes and cracked at its pedestal by an off-road vehicle, the Georgia Historical Society marker reads in part: “Mary Turner, eight months pregnant, was burned, mutilated, and shot to death by a mob after publicly denouncing her husband’s lynching the previous day. … No charges were ever brought against known or suspected participants in these crimes. From 1880-1930, as many as 550 people were killed in Georgia in these illegal acts of mob violence.”
Now each word damaged by bullets is projected on a wall, and visitors hear those words spoken by some of Turner’s six generations of descendants.
“I’m glad the memorial was shot up,” great-granddaughter Katrina Thomas said Saturday night after her first look at the exhibit in the National Museum for Civil and Human Rights. “Millions of people are going to learn her story. That her voice is continuing years and years after, it shows history does not disappear. It lives and continues to grow.”
Americans learned about these lynchings in 1918 because they were investigated in the immediate aftermath by Walter White, who founded the Georgia chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and would become an influential voice for civil rights nationwide. A light-skinned Black man who could pass for white, he interviewed eyewitnesses and provided names of suspects to the governor of Georgia, according to his report in the NAACP’s publication, The Crisis.
Georgia was among the most active states for lynchings, according to the Equal Justice Initiative ’s catalog of more than 4,400 documented racial terror lynchings in the U.S. between Reconstruction and World War II. The organization has placed markers at many sites and built a monument to the victims in Montgomery, Alabama.
The nation’s first anti-lynching legislation was introduced in 1918 amid national reaction to deaths of Mary and Hayes Turner and their neighbors in Georgia’s Brooks and Lowndes counties. It passed the House in 1922, but Southern senators filibustered it and another century would pass before lynching was made a federal hate crime in 2022.
“The same injustice that took her life was the same injustice that kept vandalizing it, year after year,” said Randy McClain, the Turners’ great-grandnephew. He grew up in the same rural area where the lynchings happened but did not know much about them or discover his family connection until he was an adult.
“Here it feels like a very safe space,” McClain said. “She’s now finally at rest, and her story can be told. And her family can feel some sense of vindication.”
Field Marshall Bradley
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Grandparents bought me that book as a child… Got that joint and the joy of signing on the same day… Talking about a wild contrast between those narratives….
Ironman
#Knickstape
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
I was just thinking the other day about all these school shootings……..chickens do come home….This is why I have no remorse for their offspring
The Realist Perspective
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The most wicked of savages. And they very much live amongst us today. This type of behavior has NEVER been addressed.
it never went away. they just hid. my city (tulsa) got famous all over again for the 1921 race massacre. they call it the race riot here but i think massacre is a better term. some black folks were armed and tried to fight back but it was pretty much a slaughter. they even had planes dropping accelerants out of the skies to burn down greenwood. but nothing changed.. they sorta rebuilt the neighborhood, but then the 1950s and the interstate highway system cut through the heart of greenwood and killed it. if you go to archer and greenwood today, its pretty much one block. the college and the federal govt owns the rest of the land now.
the duluth lynchings in particular are just awful. a white boy and a white girl went to see the fair, something happened with the boy and girl and clearly they were afraid to tell their parents, so they blamed the black people working at the carnival. you can guess what happened. i spoilered it cos theres a lynching pic on the wikipedia page, just a warning
the little girl who lied... her great nephew was the police chief of the SAME TOWN until 2022. in the article he goes on about what a "sweet lady" she was...
fukking demons manDuluth’s new police chief acknowledges great-aunt’s role in 1920 lynching
the nerve of this cracker! you know your own great aunt got innocent black men killed, and youre shocked??? between this and the borderline fellatio Duluth residents perform on their officers:
all ive learned is that i dont wanna be anywhere near that god damn place. what a shythole of a city.
when i was a kid in the 90s i thought maybe by now we'd (collectively as humans) be doing better about racism but its worse than ever. white people like to whine about "reverse racism"
how the hell does that work? its understandable why black folks would be wary of white people... but i cant think of any incident where black people were horrible to whites. it makes no sense. i guess i have a different perspective on this stuff because of my race, but if anyone deserves to be the victim of racism... its white people just my 2c. sorry for the rant!