Mike Johnson Says Slavery, Lynching, Segregation Are 'Christian Principles’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suzxHYjpjKU 

 

A Scandal Just ERUPTED In Over THIS MAGA Halloween Float

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv_5lkxMEQQ

Arizona Republican leader threatened to ‘lynch’ top county election official

In a video, Busch said if Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer "walked into this room, I would lynch him."…

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4739891-arizona-republican-leader-threatened-to-lynch-top-county-election-official/

Weekly Roundup: Try That in a Barbie World (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad and Dan begin by discussing the new Florida school curriculum that forces teachers to tell students that enslaved people received some benefit from their enslaved condition. Dan reports on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ claim that enslaved people would have been able to develop trade skills and other “personal benefits.”

In the second segment Brad outlines the controversy surrounding Jason Aldean’s song “Try That in A Small Town,” explaining why it’s code and what the history of lynching and other violence tells us about it.

In the final segment the hosts discuss the right-wing temper tantrums in reaction to the Barbie movie.
Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-try-that-in-a-barbie-world/

Biden will establish a national monument for Emmett Till, Black teen lynched in 1955 | PBS NewsHour

President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-will-establish-a-national-monument-for-emmett-till-black-teen-lynched-in-1955

He was with Emmett Till the night he was murdered. The horror haunts him still : NPR

Parker was just 16 years old when his cousin and best friend, 14-year-old Emmett Till, was lynched. Till's murder would spur international outrage and propel the fight for justice and equality. Parker is the last living witness of the kidnapping…

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1162677900/emmett-till-wheeler-parker

Iowa Man Arrested After He Threatened to Hang Election Official

Rissi's case is part of the DOJ's Election Threats Task Force, which was launched in 2021 to address violent threats against election workers and officials...

https://www.insider.com/iowa-man-arrested-after-he-threatened-to-hang-election-official-2022-10

 

Law professor unearths cases of racial violence from the Jim Crow era (Dave Davies; Fresh Air podcast)

In her new book, By Hands Now Known, Margaret Burnham reports on little-known cases of racial violence in the Jim Crow era, including crimes that went unreported and murderers who were never punished...

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125350542/law-professor-unearths-cases-of-racial-violence-from-the-jim-crow-era

‘Alabama wind chime’: Missouri school sued over alleged lynching threats against Black children - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

"While her children were riding the school bus in Kearney last spring, mother Tiffaney Whitt said they were called the N-word by fellow students, who threatened to fight, kill and hang them from trees," The Kansas City Star reported Thursday. "The threats were reported to the school authorities, but no students were reprimanded, according to a federal lawsuit filed against the Kearney school district and school bus service this week. It's the second lawsuit filed against the district in the past few months alleging a pattern of severe racial harassment and discrimination against Black students in the overwhelmingly white Clay County district — and a failure by school officials to stop it."…

https://www.rawstory.com/kearney-school-district/

One family's photo album includes images of a vacation, a wedding anniversary and the lynching of a Black man in Texas

Lynchings occurred regularly in Texas – with 16 in 1922 alone – and served as the most extreme and violent embodiment of white supremacy in the state during the Jim Crow period… 

https://theconversation.com/one-familys-photo-album-includes-images-of-a-vacation-a-wedding-anniversary-and-the-lynching-of-a-black-man-in-texas-183704

Video shows student threatening to lynch, kill Black students at Plymouth high school

…The video showed a white high school student filming himself threatening to lynch, curb-stomp and kill Black students, using the "n-word" multiple times…

https://www.wxyz.com/news/video-shows-student-threatening-to-lynch-kill-black-students-at-plymouth-high-school

Joe Biden signs landmark law making lynching a hate crime | Joe Biden | The Guardian

Biden said the law was not just about addressing history.

It's about the present and our future as well," he said, mentioning the rally of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. "Racial hate isn't an old problem. It's a persistent problem."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/29/emmett-till-anti-lynching-act-biden-signs

Opinion | Why did it take so long to make lynching a hate crime? - The Washington Post

…The legislation passed by Congress and soon to be signed into law is named in memory of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955 when he was lynched after being accused of leering at a White woman. Not only did the two White men who killed him get acquitted, but they openly bragged about how they killed Till. If only there had been a federal law that could have been used to try to hold them to account…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/22/why-did-it-take-so-long-make-lynching-crime/

House passes anti-lynching bill that Rep. Bobby Rush says is decades overdue - The Washington Post

…In 2005, the Senate approved a resolution apologizing for its failure to enact anti-lynching legislation. Then-Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) pointed to the impact of the chamber's decades of inaction, declaring that "there may be no other injustice in American history for which the Senate so uniquely bears responsibility."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/28/house-expected-pass-antilynching-bill-two-years-after-sen-rand-paul-blocked-unanimous-passage/

'Modern-day lynching': Man found shot dead during trip with co-worker - ABC News

"They are trying to sweep this under the rug," Spencer's sister, Tehilah, wrote on a GoFundMe page. "We will not let them ... He was slaughtered and killed in what I consider an act of modern-day lynching!"

https://abcnews.go.com/US/modern-day-lynching-man-found-shot-dead-trip/story

How a white mob lynched a Black man, destroyed a city – and got away with it

…Within a matter of minutes after the crowd that lynched him put Will Brown into the raging bonfire at the intersection of 17th and Dodge streets in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, his bullet-riddled, mutilated body was destroyed. It was 28 September 1919, and the 41-year-old laborer had been pulled out of the Douglas county courthouse building four blocks away after a mob estimated to be between 5,000 and 20,000 white locals laid siege to it. Over two days one of the final, most dramatic occurrences of the fateful 1919 Red Summer unfolded in Omaha because a 19-year-old white woman cried rape at the hands of a Black man...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/09/omaha-riot-how-white-mobs-360-video

Black VMI cadet Rafael Jenkins was threatened with a lynching, then expulsion - The Washington Post

Rafael Jenkins knew he'd encounter racism at the Virginia Military Institute. But not like this.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/12/21/vmi-lynching-racism-expulsion/

At VMI, Black cadets endure lynching threats, Klan memories and Confederacy veneration - The Washington Post

... White sophomore who told a Black freshman that he'd "lynch" him and "use his dead corpse as a punching bag."...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-vmi-black-cadets-endure-lynching-threats-klan-memories-and-confederacy-veneration/2020/10/17/3bf53cec-0671-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html

Author Susan Neiman on Germans/Holocaust vs. America/slavery – Germans Win. (The Al Franken podcast)

Neiman contrasts how Germans have come to terms with The Third Reich and how Americans have processed slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, lynching, and systemic racism.
Interview:
https://alfranken.com/listen/author-susan-nieman-on-germans-holocaust-vs-america-slavery-germans-win

Atlanta lynching: Police officer, Klan leader Samuel Roper orchestrated Thomas Finch killing in 1936 - The Washington Post

The lynching began with a knock on the door. It was 3 a.m. on Sept. 12, 1936, a steamy late summer morning in Atlanta. Thomas Finch and his family were sound asleep. Then, the knocking. When Finch’s father opened the front door, he found five white men standing there: two police officers and three other burly men the family had never seen before. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/19/atlanta-lynching-police-ku-klux-klan/