How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/racism-white-women.html

How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror
There are too many noosed necks, charred bodies and drowned souls for them to deny knowing precisely what they are doing.
By Charles M. Blow
May 27, 2020

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Indeed, untold numbers of lynchings were executed because white women had claimed that a black man raped, assaulted, talked to or glanced at them.

But it goes even further than that. The Tulsa Race massacre, the destruction of Black Wall Street, was spurred by an incident between a white female elevator operator and a black man. As the Oklahoma Historical Society points out, the most common explanation is that he stepped on her toe. As many as 300 people were killed because of it.

In 1944, 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. was electrocuted for the killing of two little white girls. He was the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century. His trial lasted only a couple hours. There was little or no cross-examination of prosecution witnesses or calling of defense witnesses. The all-white, all-male jury deliberated for only 10 minutes before finding Stinney guilty, and he was sentenced to death.

He was just 5 feet 1 inch tall. As Laura Bradley wrote in Slate, “He weighed 95 pounds when he was arrested, and was so small he had to sit on a phone book in the electric chair when he was executed within three months of the murders.” Some say the book was in fact a Bible.

[Laelth]

1. Too true--tragically true. n/t

-Laelth

[lunasun]

2. + Rec

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. K&R.

[MaryMagdaline]

4. K&R

[no_hypocrisy]

5. The Scottsboro Boys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys

https://universitywildcats.edlioschool.com/apps/video/watch.jsp?v=137705

[dalton99a]

6. +1

(Daily Worker, April 13, 1931)

[Hortensis]

7. Being part of a large majority in our white-dominated culture,

of course more whites do this here than any other race. But no one should fool themselves that this viciousness is not seen in any group of humans. In any culture, by far most of these crimes are committed by members of the dominating group.

And by far most are committed by men, and most by men on women, often to get relatives out of their way for practical reasons but often just as exercises of spite and power.