Morbid question but did anyone here had an ancestor that was lynched or survived one?

[⠝⠕⠏⠑]

The horror stories so many of our elders don’t like to discuss. It’s traumatizing. My grandparents hated going into town because they remembered places that are now restaurants that used to be locations of torture of blacks. South Carolina is the a$$hole of the world. You always hear about Texas and Mississippi and Florida but don’t sleep on SC when it comes to the horrors of racism.

The scariest part is that none of the whites who committed these atrocities were ever brought to justice. They went on to raise the children who went on to join our current police forces. It makes complete sense why our police system is as fukked as it is. They’ve had free reign to rape, kill, castrate, drag, torture, behead, hang, mutilate, arrest and burn us for over 600 years. The uniforms may have changed but it’s the same gravy, warm it up all over again. I absolutely hate this country sometimes.
Word to George Stinney.

How evil do you have to be to look at this little face and condemn him to an electric chair?!

George Stinney - Wikipedia

 

[TaxCollector13459]

I'd be shook being in that vicinity honestly. I don't believe in ghosts but I imagine the vibes around that tree to be disturbing.

They are our people, they want you to know their stories.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

My great-great grandfather was from Louisiana...light-skinned Creole that was damn near white. He was a teacher at Negro schools and would travel with his two daughters and wife.

My great-grandma mentioned witnessing some lynchings....think it was around Grand Saline, TX. Him being "white looking" probably saved him a few times when traveling out of town.

Other than that...nope. My family on both sides was big, well-armed and country as fukk. Whites weren't coming down to the woods looking for them. Good way to end up dead in a swamp with no witnesses.

 

[ElMorenoFeo809]

My grandpa's father survived an attempt mob attack in the DR during the early 1900's.

 

[ThatTruth777]

Who knows, some things old folks don't want to talk about.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

I'm gonna ask my grandaddy about this. My granny too.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Who knows, some things old folks don't want to talk about.

That's how mine are. A LOT of my folks were sharecroppers & slaves. But they seem to not wanna acknowledge or talk about it when I ask about my family history.

 

[JadeB]

Bump

 

[Rell84shots]

Not a lynching, but my grandmother survived an attempted gang raping. Long story short she had a female friend that turned out to be some c00n ass bytch, and she took her to a "party" that turned out to be just a house full of degenerate cacs. She got away unharmed which isn't surprising, because she was the strongest person I've ever known(R.I.P.).

 

[JadeB]

My grandpa's father survived an attempt mob attack in the DR during the early 1900's.

What was the story behind that?

 

[Cat piss martini]

I'm sure one of my relatives was
murdered by a lynch mob for getting
caught with his dikk in the mouth of a slave
masters wife,pissin in their lemonade
or some shyt like that.

 

[BlackAchilles]

Back in Mississippi my Great Grandfather was confronted by a mob of cacs outside the polls when he went to try and vote; fortunately the lead cac said to leave him be

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

AFAIK....no.

Some of my ancestors saw lynchings but none experienced one.

There was a breh IN THE 70s (maybe late 60s) that robbed some corner market in my mom's hometown. Dude beat up some white lady on his way out the store. Black folks were like because no one knew who he was apparently....might have just been drugged up looking for $$$.

Anyway....breh "disappeared" and was found near the edge of a lake (I think Caddo Lake in East TX but not 100% on that). Everyone thinks the Klan/white citizens council got to his azz.

Otherwise, there weren't any beefs since blacks had their own shyt and whites had theirs but everyone was about the same economically

 

[invalid]

I had a second or third great grandmother that was a school teacher down in Dearing, Georgia. Her sons built her a school house to teach the black kids in the area. Some white folks ended up burning down the school house with her inside. That's when the family picked up and moved to Augusta. Some years later, their old white neighbor in Dearing came to them and confessed that it was their nephew that burned down school and killed my great grandmother.

As far as lynchings, I met a few black folks that had a relative that was lynched. Most of them come from prosperous families. Which may lend credence to a study that Ida B. Wells had done that revealed that most of the lynchings were perpetrated against black folks who were getting "too big for their britches" and who threatened the white economic and political power structure i.e. black business owners or wealthy blacks.

 

[ElMorenoFeo809]

What was the story behind that?

Over something petty. My great-grandfather who can pass as a "white man" and as a black man lived in a segregated neighborhood (not by law) in Baní. He like to go to parties. So when one side of the neighborhood throw a black only or white only party, he goes there while the other side is throwing its own. He got caught by one of the dark brehitos and ratted outand the whole neighborhood found out and both sides went to get him. He moved out of the area cos he didn't felt safe any more.