3,178 Murders

Alabama

Many African Americans who were never accused of any crime were tortured and murdered in front of picnicking spectators, including elected officials and prominent citizens for bumping into a white person, or wearing their military uniforms after World War I, or not using the appropriate title when addressing a white person.

County votes for Trump: 90.0%
State votes for Trump: 62.9%
White pop.: 94.3%

Arkansas

A total of 284 lynching’s were recorded in Arkansas. 237 lives were taken during a massive attack on sharecroppers and laborers. When Black sharecroppers came together in an attempt to become unionized, white landowners and the elite saw this as a serious threat to their own financial growth and prosperity.

County votes for Trump: 80.4%

State votes for Trump: 60.4%

White pop.: 88.7%

Florida

There were 282 reported lynching’s in Florida. A 1993 article by the Orlando Sentinel explains. “Now, a sweeping new study of lynching in the South has found that blacks were more likely to be lynched in Florida than in any other state. For every 1,250 Black people in Florida between 1882 to 1930, one was lynched. This is seven times higher than the rate for North Carolina and almost twice the rate that was in Georgia.

County votes for Trump: 87.9%

State votes for Trump: 49.1%

White pop.: 87.3%

Georgia

Georgia had 531 lynching’s. New Georgia Encyclopedia entry reveals that there was at least one mob killing of a Black person every month.

County votes for Trump: 88.5%

State votes for Trump: 51.3%

White pop.: 92.6%

Kentucky 

205 people were lynched in the state of Kentucky. They all met with unbelievably inhumane deaths. A glimpse of just how much terrorism Blacks faced in Kentucky can be found in the March 25, 1871 letter sent to the U.S. Congress asking for protection from the government.

County votes for Trump: 89.4%

State votes for Trump: 62.5%

White pop.: 98.6%

Louisiana

Louisiana had a recorded 391 total lynching’s. the entire state was more focused on creating more systemic ways to protect white supremacy rather than taking a violent approach, instead sugar and cotton planters  manipulated plantation arrangements and the criminal justice system to ensure the maintenance of white supremacy.

County votes for Trump: 88.8%

State votes for Trump: 58.1%

White pop.: 83.2%

Mississippi

With well over 581 lynching’s, Mississippi tops the list with the most total lynching’s, according to statistics provided by the Tuskegee Institute.

14-year-old Emmet Till’s body was found with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire.

County votes for Trump: 88.0%

State votes for Trump: 58.3%

White pop.: 87.9%

South Carolina

With 160 lynching’s throughout the state, South Carolina had the 10th highest number of lynching’s. According to Tuskegee Institute’s data, most of the victims were innocent. Anthony Crawford simply got into a verbal disagreement over the price of cottonseed, according to Elizabeth Rauh Bethel’s Promiseland, A Century of Life in a Negro Community, which was published by the University of South Carolina.

County votes for Trump: 73.9%

 State votes for Trump: 54.9%

 White pop.: 86.5%

Tennessee

Tennessee had 251 confirmed lynching’s that led to the deaths of at least 204 Black people. According to The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, Lynching’s took place in 70 counties throughout the state with most happening in Shelby County. The Memphis Press even described the burning of one Black prisoner, Henry Lowery, as an “outstanding lynch success.”

County votes for Trump: 86.2%

State votes for Trump: 61.1%

White pop.: 90.7%

Texas

Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) revealed The Lone Star state had a total of 493 recorded lynching’s. White mobs hoping to “restore white supremacy” would frequently seek out suspected slave rebels and white abolitionists.

County votes for Trump: 90.5%

State votes for Trump: 52.6%

White pop.: 68.8% (85th of 254 TX counties)

*These numbers represent the recorded number of lynching’s and don’t account for the many Black victims who were lynched secretly before their bodies were burned or disposed of without any official record being made.

3,178 Murders

Nobel

I think the noblest action is to walk away and relieve them of that responsibility they feel to keep us in our place and take what we have and use it to our own benefit not there’s. They are already so much further ahead of us by about four hundred years. </p>

<p> Don’t we want to dream again; don't we want to believe that we can accomplish what ever we set our mind to.  Some of us have, but too many of us still have not, we deserve it. We can do it. 

<p>Now, we are able to do everything, right? I guess what I'm saying is we have to, we must begin to do everything for ourselves and for our children for our future, for our survival, for our existence. 

It's time, it’s time, to show our disillusioned children that they can become anything they want to, we say that to them so why don’t we prove it to them. We can hire our own people in any field we are in, when we are able to offer the opportunity to our selves ourselves then we have done our best.

We live in a capitalist society, don't we? Then why aren’t we doing capitalistic things for our people our selves? Do we expect that we can't?

Do we not believe in ourselves? Are we afraid? Is the money too much of a draw, can we walk away from what they pay us to be a part of what they have already established for themselves?

YET

White or Black, this country prefers no one is learning anything. By now we should have someone in every field or line of work that we need to sustain us in this country. It's time, It's time we do this.  I remember reading about the 1800's in this country, the industrial age was becoming a means of this country's ability to sustain itself. Agriculture, cotton picking by hand was over.  We did that work, yet were not allowed to participate in this new age.

Our most educated were not allowed to do much more than menial labor for minimal pay most of us could become no more than a preacher or a teacher, in black churches or black schools, we were being limited, oppressed, and racism white supremacy practiced, in full force. We were repackaged up and re-sold, from creators of this land to destroyers,  in a fatal way we have been and still are to this very day treated that same way.  

CHANGE

We go on and on about the changes we wanted: we live where the white people live, we train our children at the same schools the white children attend, Is that it? What did we really want, I thought we wanted to do something, be somebody, change our lives and change the world for each and every one, didn’t we? 

I think it just gave them easier access to those billions we spend, we give it all to them, we don’t use it for our own selves. To build our own selves whatever we need to “be”. Were we told or were we to understand that it couldn’t be expected all at once, it had to be in phases, if we got this help we were asking for that it would be temporary and would cost us our hard-earned billions in return? They took the pennies our parents earned to pay for an education, an education for us should be free at any institution in this country, let alone around the entire world, considering the laws that were made to prevent us from it.

DO IT OURSELVES-DIO

With all that we have learned and have always been able to do, why don't we create, run and operate whatever we need to secure and stabilize a future for ourselves here in this place? We have people that can do it all, so why don't we do-it-ourselves?

Why are we still hoping to get them to give us something like a good job when they had to be forced to do so, like with affirmative action?

Why are we still so dependent on the whim of some white man?

Why don't we have healthcare, taken care of by our own physicians who have been known to be the best in their field? There was a time when we were not allowed in their hospitals for care, who knows more about us than us.  It’s a battle to get paid as much or more than whites doing the same work. It happens from the lowest paid jobs to the highest. </p>

IMAGINE Mr. & Mrs. Brown

If, fifty-years ago, a Mr. & Mrs.  Brown convinced all of us to only wear the most comfortable shoes, they come in kid and adult sizes, various colors and styles and the cost is very affordable, and everyone, at least all of us owned a pair or two. All of these Business Management degree majors just want to be business owners deep down inside. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were Business Management degree majors who couldn’t find jobs anywhere but the local grocery store and one of the country’s biggest retailers, both of their earned incomes together didn’t total enough to buy, a house, a good car or hope for their future. They always looked for better jobs that would allow them to use the skills they were still paying for in student loan debt.  They did this for a while, then they decided they needed to take a different route in their pursuit of happiness so they started the shoe factory.</p>

<p>In this country that we live in, we were never appreciated for more than our hands and our backs which we used as part of it's development. 

IMAGINE Mr. Brooks

<p> I imagined, that Mr. Brooks would own a publishing house, or newspaper or magazine, and I could get a job as a writer or reporter, and my neighbor Jamal who likes to draw, would have a graphics art degree and design signs and advertisements for all the businesses, in our town that are owned by blacks, and my cousin up north in Chicago would run a manufacturing operation, he was able to start with his degree in Business Management, that made clothes designed by black designers. The factory that makes the shoes, that we all wear keeps the neighborhood employed and is a sort of place to work and get money, knowledge and training for various professions while you complete a degree or decide what you want to do with your life, which is so short and precious. </p>

<p> You can take your time and earn while you grow and learn more and more and are able to open a new location for the factory in one or two or more countries in Africa, where a lot of our lost ancestry hails from. 

MONEY

I  am visualizing a world where we can receive whatever we need from one another to do our life's work. Our young people are disappointed in our older people because we are not able to do this for them. In all this time, we have not bothered to prepare a path for them to take to pursue happiness. I think they have a point? We haven’t developed our earning potential to work for us and our families. We have not risen above and beyond the realm of worker.

MONEY

I’ve earned very little since I received my B.S.  I am one who owns nothing and I am currently not employed. I was a part-time worker for the last three years at one job where I earned 8.25 per hour working approximately 3 hours a day 3 to 4 days a week never totaling more than 20 hours over a two week period. I also worked as a part-time math tutor for about five months earning 14.00 per hour working 10 hours per week, with both jobs I earned less than 300.00 a week.  The last check I received was for 45.00.  We still work jobs for them not for ourselves and then give all of what we earn right back to them. This is why our young people are so disillusioned.

TIME

<p>Are we are not, thinking about the future?  Why? Is it impossible? Will it cost too much money, has anyone done the research?

I've read statistics that say we spend billions in one state alone every year in the United States economy.  Is it thinking too big, way out of the box to think that we could take that money and change our world?  The money keeps a line of separation among us, we get some to take care of ourselves and, we feel sorry for and maybe give a little to those who have nothing. Wouldn’t it be more effective to at least try another way, honestly, what ever we earn working could not be as rewarding as working for and focusing on ourselves as a whole for a while? </p>

TIME

<p>It seems that we are still asking the “white man”, 60+ years after civil rights, to “give us opportunities please!" What about securing our future, Asking for help is a good thing, there is not much one with or without can do without the help of others. Why don’t those of us who can think and build and create and heal and nurture and teach and train help to secure our future for ourselves by providing those opportunities ourselves for ourselves?  We have since been employed for them in their institutions, corporations, private, federal, state and local governments, where we have learned what to do to establish our selves, haven’t we?</p>

TIME

<p><h1>Timeline</h1>

In the 1950's and 1970's why didn't all of us that were educated in various fields build and develop a way for our people to have jobs and work and learn from each other so that we could sustain our selves and not have to go to the "white man" for anything? Was that the plan all along?

Maybe, it seems that we tried it, by tackling one thing at a time, with education first. Once we were educated we had to look to affirmative action after so many of us were educated, but could not become gainfully employed at a level high enough to avoid poverty and provide a secure and promising future for our children. Looking for a job was, it seems, the only way to do that. Now, we realize that that may not have been the answer.</p>

Wi-Fi

How is it possible that my own sister won't give me access to her internet connection so I can go online with my own laptop from anywhere necessary?

She said, “No, Just come over here and get on my computer.”

I'll chalk it up to, she doesn't understand how the technology works rather than what kind of sister is she, and she just finished a B.A. Degree. She truly believes she should not do this simple thing. She is obviously one of these people who believe that a computer and it's access to the internet should be, by all means necessary, guarded against.

Since I have a B.S. In computer information systems, I can tell you that her paranoia is overrated.

Is she afraid I might do something dastardly to her, or that somehow, someone, through me will do something like commit identity theft, or drain her bank account, how crass, does she really hate and distrust me instead of loving me?

I love her. If I were her and she was me I would do it for her, maybe she does not believe that.

She attends Church every Sunday and Wednesday night bible study, as well as work for the missionary board. What lack of faith and trust in the Lord she demonstrates, feeling that she has to protect herself from her own sister.

I have never done anything close to a cyber crime and I would never do anything to harm her. I don't understand this kind of thinking from someone who declares love for God almighty.

The way she is behaving towards me feels like a stab in the heart, makes me not want to go near her for fear of feeling like a criminal, not like her sister.

I am puzzled, hurt and dismayed in a way, she is like most people, not like a sister. Most people believe those of us with a lot in life not similar to theirs is just untrustworthy, undeserving of love, just wrong. In many ways she makes me feel she is not sincere about how she sees me. I can't understand why she feels this way.

She has said we were never close, that I treated her awful when we were children. She called me stupid within the last month.

Growing up, I didn't want her to hang around me and my friends, because she would tattle tell everything we did to my mother. We shared a bedroom, talking late into the night until we fell asleep. I was a spoiled child, the oldest and she must have resented that and maybe still does to this day, I guess. She is the baby of the family, I don't think I resented that, maybe a little, but I'm over it, we're just three years apart. We were children long ago.

I asked my cousin, same zodiac sign as my sister, if I could use her internet connection, and she said, “How are you going to use my internet connection and you're there and I'm here?” That told me she doesn't understand Wi-Fi either. I explained, all I needed was her username and password and she actually said “No, I'm not doing that!” I explained it was really no big deal, it would be helping me out.

Do they not realize that I can walk into their homes and get online with my own device, using the signal from their box, that they pay for every month, for free.I worked for the major internet service provider part-time in sales for about six months making me a product knowledge expert. They both were very adamant, and went on to strongly proclaim that they were,“not going to do it,” so I dropped it.

I was thoroughly put off by their behavior and treatment of me. Is it me? am I suppose to understand this from my one and only baby sister and my oldest and dearest cousin, 1^st cousin, my mother's brother's daughter, who incidentally attends Church every Sunday as well.

What do they think can happen if I use the internet connection they pay for every month that allows them to have at least 10 users on their account? Their behavior comes across as selfish, superficial and uncaring showing no love for me, considering my lot in life at the moment.

I suppose what I believe, which is, love always wins over hate, and if you believe in God, then you surely have faith that nothing can harm you in any way that cannot be dealt with in your favor, is not taught at the churches they attend, and the last time I went to church was two weeks ago.

Stupid

What does it mean to say someone or something is stupid. I believe something can be stupid, but someone can do something about it. What I am saying is that someone who is said to be stupid can be helped to change their predicament. I believe in the human ability to change, to improve. 

Something that is stupid can only be fixed, deleted or eliminated, by someone.  I truly hate the word, it is derogatory, it is demeaning, it is a blow to the heart and mind. an iron glove. It is cutting, sharp and strong as the steel that makes a  Hatori Hanso sword. It cuts, it wounds, it debilitates, it destroys. It is a bad word especially when it is said about someone versus being said about something.