Not to dwell on this but can you catch one … or two of the same word?
Hughes had perished in the fire, but the crazed crowd, now numbering over 5000, dragged his body behind a car, hanged it from a tree, and set it on fire. The mob then burned down black businesses and again prevented the fire department from putting out the flames.
The reporter that wrote it did a damn fine job in 1930..
“hanged it from a tree…and set it to fire.”
What is it?
I think that would be called a man.
No matter how wrong or right he was he was still a man….a person.
And he never had a trial…never was judged….only by a town the didn’t give a shit about anyone that wasn’t like them….white.
He still does haunt me to this day. How people can be so cruel.
Maybe George Hughes was a good guy…
He also never had a chance to say….anything.
The reporter that wrote it did a damn fine job in 1930..
“hanged it from a tree…and set it to fire.”
What is it?
I think that would be called a man.
No matter how wrong or right he was he was still a man….a person.
And he never had a trial…never was judged….only by a town the didn’t give a shit about anyone that wasn’t like them….white.
He still does haunt me to this day. How people can be so cruel.
Maybe George Hughes was a good guy…
He also never had a chance to say….anything.
posted by iamfallingfromgrace at 1:22 AM
3 Comments:
Racially disgusting...grammatically correct. "It" refers to Hughes' body, and therefore, is being used correctly, if not appropriately.
The true sign of racism on the part of the author was how he used the term "his body" to describe a man who was still alive.
Frightening.
Check that, read it wrong. He was dead. Not sure how I missed that.
I may have misread, but your point isn't lost. Sorry for wasting everyone's time.
You are correct. I guess it just disturbed me…but I though it could have been written better…but it is the media so it’s all about the shock value.
Maybe it could have been written …“Hughes body was then hung from a tree and set on fire.”
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