A gentle reminder that the “last lynchings” were between 1981-1991, so
it’s less than 40. The CRA act was passed 54 years ago. Not enough
people want to hear or remember that.
Nah black people still get lynched to this day. Multiple cases this year alone. The police just say they committed suicide. But they committed suicide in public places in the middle of the night..by hanging themselves. The police just cover the shit up because they’re in on it. If it’s deemed a suicide they don’t have to investigate. Case closed.
It’s amazing that we only want equality and not revenge.
It’s sometimes called “Racism by Proxy,” wherein white people (consciously or unconsciously) use the police to enforce their bigotry after they’ve projected their racist imaginations onto black people. Remember how Ronald Richielied and called the police on John Crawford and got him killed for carrying a toy gun – in a Walmart that was in an open carry state?
When a white person threatens to call the police on a black person, there is ALWAYS the added threat of lethal violence befalling the black person. And many times, white people are fully aware of this fact.
Since the days of slave patrols, to Emmett Till, the police have always been a tool of white supremacy. From racial profiling, to stop-and-frisk, to reporting “suspicious” behavior, to forced segregation it’s all the same animal – white people using the state, prompting the police to carry out even the most mundane kinds of racism, like arresting black people for the “crime” being in the wrong place.
House of Brat 