If it's about "history", maybe surviving participants in lynching postcards should come forward

[ck4829]

For historical purposes.

The participants in lynchings made postcards.

Terror lynchings as a display of racial domination peaked around the 1880s through to the 1940s, and were less frequent until the 1970s, especially (but not exclusively) in the Southern United States. Lynchings were widely used to intimidate recently emancipated African Americans after the Civil War Reconstruction era, and were later used to intimidate voters and civil rights workers of all ethnic backgrounds. Mostly African-American men, women, and children were lynched, for a lack of subservience or for success in business. Others were often wrongfully accused of crimes and forcibly removed from their homes or jails to be killed by a white supremacist mob without due process or presumption of innocence.

Spectators sold one another souvenirs including postcards. Often the photographer was one of the killers.

In a typical lynching postcard, the victim is displayed prominently at the center of the shot, while smiling spectators, often including children, crowd the margins of the frame, posing for the camera to prove their presence. Facial expressions suggesting remorse, guilt, shame, or regret are rare.

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

It's weird how they want their monuments and confederate flags but nobody wants to take a big felt red marker, draw a circle where they were at in the postcard, and say "that was me".

I think that would be of far more historical value than a statue.

[dhill926]

1. K & R...

[lostnfound]

2. I watched Black Klansmenlast night, was the first id heard of the postcards

Sickening. And a very good movie.

[Nevilledog]

3. Watched "The Uncomfortable Truth" on Amazon Prime today.

They discussed these postcards. Horrific.