The Last Lynching

Dedicated to the memory of Sean Bell and Michael Donald...Respect... ...VOTE...Fight, Fight the Power, You've GOTTA Fight the Powers That Be! (Thanks, Isley Brothers and Public Enemy)
Last night, Ted Koppel hosted "The Last Lynching," on Discovery. I was educated by watching this program and I was amazed to find out the last person who was lynched in America was lynched in Alabama in 1981. I was pregnant with my own son then and thought we'd been long past the days of lynching in America. My posts are not only dedicated to the memory of Sean Bell, but I have now included Michael Donald, because, really, we should NOT forget. We are living in times where hatred is covert and you would never know some of the folk who harbor hatred in their hearts. Times like this require us to pray AND to BE AWARE. Get to know what local meetings are being held in your community. Find out who is attending and listen to what they are discussing. The only way not to repeat that history is to recognize the behavior and avert it. Become active and stay active. As Rev. says so often, it must be SUSTAINED. Be about it and stay about it.

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