Youngest Person Executed in the United States in the 20th Century was a 14yr old Boy
George Junius Stinney, Jr.,
[b. 1929 - d. 1944]
In a South Carolina prison more than sixty-six years ago, guards walked a 14-year-old boy, bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair. At 5' 1" and 95 pounds, the straps didn’t fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg.
The switch was pulled and the adult sized death mask fell from George Stinney’s face. Tears streamed from his eyes. Witnesses recoiled in horror as they watched the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century die.
Now, a community activist is fighting to clear Stinney’s name, saying the young boy couldn’t have killed two girls. George Frierson, a school board member and textile inspector, believes Stinney’s confession was coerced, and that his execution was just another injustice blacks suffered in Southern courtrooms in the first half of the 1900s.
In a couple of cases like Stinney’s, petitions are being made before parole boards and courts are being asked to overturn decisions made when society’s thumb was weighing the scales of justice against blacks. These requests are buoyed for the first time in generations by money, college degrees and sometimes clout.
“I hope we see more cases like this because it help brings a sense of closure. It’s symbolic,” said Howard University law professor Frank Wu. “It’s not just important for the individuals and their families. It’s important for the entire community. Not just for African Americans, but for whites and for our democracy as a whole. What these cases show is that it is possible to achieve justice.”
Some have already achieved justice. Earlier this year, syndicated radio host Tom Joyner successfully won a posthumous pardon for two great uncles who were executed in South Carolina.
A few years ago Lena Baker, a black Georgia maid sent to the electric chair for killing a white man, received a pardon after her family pointed out she likely killed the man because he was holding her against her will.
In the Stinney case, supporters want the state to admit that officials executed the wrong person in June 1944.
Stinney was accused of killing two white girls, 11 year old Betty June
Binnicker and 8 year old
Mary Emma Thames, by beating them with a railroad spike then dragging
their bodies to a ditch near Acolu, about five miles from Manning in
central South Carolina. The girls were found a day after they
disappeared following a massive manhunt. Stinney was arrested a few
hours later, white men in suits taking him away. Because of the risk
of a lynching, Stinney was kept at a jail 50 miles away in Columbia.
Stinney’s father, who had helped look for the girls, was fired immediately and ordered to leave his home and the sawmill where he worked. His family was told to leave town prior to the trial to avoid further retribution. An atmosphere of lynch mob hysteria hung over the courthouse. Without family visits, the 14 year old had to endure the trial and death alone.
Frierson hasn’t been able to get the case out of his head since, carrying around a thick binder of old newspaper stories and documents, including an account from an execution witness.
The sheriff at the time said Stinney admitted to the killings, but there is only his word — no written record of the confession has been found. A lawyer helping Frierson with the case figures threats of mob violence and not being able to see his parents rattled the seventh- grader.
Attorney Steve McKenzie said he has even heard one account that says detectives offered the boy ice cream once they were done.
“You’ve got to know he was going to say whatever they wanted him to say,” McKenzie said.
The court appointed Stinney an attorney — a tax commissioner preparing for a Statehouse run. In all, the trial — from jury selection to a sentence of death — lasted one day. Records indicate 1,000 people crammed the courthouse. Blacks weren’t allowed inside.
The defense called no witnesses and never filed an appeal. No one challenged the sheriff’s recollection of the confession.
“As an attorney, it just kind of haunted me, just the way the judicial system worked to this boy’s disadvantage or disfavor. It did not protect him,” said McKenzie, who is preparing court papers to ask a judge to reopen the case.
Stinney’s official court record contains less than two dozen pages, several of them arrest warrants. There is no transcript of the trial.
The lack of records, while not unusual, makes it harder for people trying to get these old convictions overturned, Wu said.
But these old cases also can have a common thread.
“Some of these cases are so egregious, so extreme that when you look at it, the prosecution really has no case either,” Wu said. “It’s apparent from what you can see that someone was railroaded.”
And sometimes, police under pressure by frightened citizens jumped to conclusions rather than conducting a thorough investigation, Wu said.
Bluffton Today - 'Crusaders look to right Jim Crow justice wrongs' by
Jeffrey Collins
Photo: South Carolina Department of Archives and History
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~Kicha~ (30 months ago | reply)
Two more instances of Jim Crow justice (click on images for their stories):
player_pleasure (30 months ago | reply)
Very sad story. Robert is so right though I question the "civilized" society part!
il Corsaro (away) (30 months ago | reply)
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; ((
~Kicha~ (30 months ago | reply)
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shanan_v (30 months ago | reply)
South Carolina, that figures.
toiatoya (30 months ago | reply)
so so sad.
mark1830 (30 months ago | reply)
harrowing stories, agree with robert
exocetseye (30 months ago | reply)
Nothing's changed in South Carolina. I STILL hate that state.
~Kicha~ (30 months ago | reply)
You'd like to think man has evolved even back in 1940s America but obviously not. That much hatred, wickedness and evil that you'd do this to a child?
The boy weighed a mere 95lbs and supposedly swung a railroad spike to kill two girls and drag their bodies a distance away from the crime scene? A grown man did this and got away with it. Evil would rather execute a kid than convict the rightful person.
Jim Crow Justice --- no peace just us.
EZ_"T" PHOTO (29 months ago | reply)
Things that make you say hmmm.....Exocetseye...WOW!
exocetseye (29 months ago | reply)
Hey...., Joe Wilson, Jim DeMint, Confederate Flag still flying on the State House grounds. What more needs to be said?
taranoel (28 months ago | reply)
so sad, so disturbing
thank you, Kicha for posting such educational material
it seems i've heard lots of stories of people originally found guilty, only later to be proven innocent. Atleast today there is some science that can help figure things out.
This is a horrible murder
to be added to a long list of horrible murders.
And there it is...murder.
hate
confusion
prejudice
and
mistakes
this is one reason why i am against the death penalty
because the system is not good enough, to depend upon mistakes not being made and the other reason is that i do not believe in "an eye for an eye",
though when someone so proved beyond a shadow of doubt to have committed the most heinous crimes is caught, it is so tempting to want to rid the world of them.
taranoel (28 months ago | reply)
exocetseye:
i do think it is important to expose prejudice and hate that we come across
to a wider audience, so that there is opportunity for people to denounce and reject it
and unfortunately it still does exist, i'm sure
i've heard it
i've seen it
i think the more specific we can be the better. It's the specific words spoken, the specific ideas put forth, and the specific actions of others that we need to speak out against directly.
I know this feeling of hearing it and knowing what i'm hearing is wrong, and then wishing that others could hear it as i did. What about Joe Wilson, what about Jim DeMint...i mean what do they say? What have they done?
so ...in my opinion, some more needs to be said. Maybe you are the one to say it, simply by shedding some light on what others have said. At the same time, I think it is important to remember that assumptions and generalizations are not always helpful. I would not assume that all people living in South Carolina think the same.
if anything, i think flying a confederate flag is insensitive
because of what it has come to represent for so many of us
which is more than just some "southern heritage" or "southern pride"
but rather discrimination, slavery, and secession.
So the reason behind using the confederate flag depends on the person using it.
I guess it is not always possible to guess correctly about someone else's reasoning,
though i myself, would never choose to fly it because of what it has come to represent for so many.
It does seem odd that government buildings would fly the Confederate flag from times past, rather than the American flag of today.
I thought this was interesting
12angrymen.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/the-true- meaning-of-t...
~Kicha~ (28 months ago | reply)
exocetseye (28 months ago | reply)
Joe Wilson is the bigot who yelled out "You lie" to Obama during his State of the Union address. He's well known as a racist and not just by association. Jim DeMint? He got elected in South Carolina as a Republican. If that doesn't scream racist, nothing does. It might be a blanket indictment, but I've been around GOP South Carolinians enough to know exactly where they stand.
As for the Confederate Flag, people can try to rewrite history all they want. That guy's blog islike many that try to deny that the Civil War had ANYTHING to do with slavery, which I find to be a just about as big lie as has ever been told. Those who deny that the Civil War had anything to do with slavery seem to forget what the big deal about the formation of the GOP and Lincoln's election was all about. Heck, the two prior elections! In any event, the flag is flown as an in your face way of saying to Black Americans that "We don't give a damn about your rights". They can deny it all they want, but that is in fact the very REASON that flag was put on the South Carolina state grounds!!
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Tom Degan (27 months ago | reply)
I'm flustered. I thought I had gotten to the point where no example of racist injustice would surprise me. This case, which I was previously unaware of, absolutely floored me.
Why didn't the feds intervene? Roosevelt was in the White House so it's not inconceivable that this could have happened. Or did he keep mum because 1944 was an election year. As much as I revere and admire FDR - shame on him if this was indeed the case. Was Eleanor even aware of this? She never would have allowed this to happen.
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MaryLovesJustice (27 months ago | reply)
March 2011, two cases are before the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether children can be interrogated at their schools by social workers or armed police without parental notice, without an attorney, without a warrant, and without a Miranda warning. For details, please see the article published at MaryLovesJustice: Juvenile Justice: Kids 4 Cash - MaryLovesJustice.blogspot.com - A seventh grader is presently in prison in SC after confessions he made under those circumstances. At least 2,230 children are now serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. There are advocates who want to resume juvenile executions, so the High Court's decision regarding children's rights is extremely important.
redclover2 (27 months ago | reply)
Thanks for posting Omega14. It broke my heart. I had no idea and have never heard of it before. Thumbs up to Mr Wan and Mr Mckenzie for trying to clear George's name, hope they're successful. It won't bring him back, but maybe his soul will finally rest in peace. Prejudice is an awful thing, it clouds ppls vision and prevent empathy. I just can't imagine what that poor 14 yrold boy went through, how scared he must of being being separated from his family, denied visits and intimidated daily by white, ignorant, racist white men. Everything about this was wrong, very unjust. he was judged and guilty in their minds from the beginning, they made a mockery of the so-called judicial process, fired his dad and chased his family out of town with their lynch mob mentality. SHAMEFUL, and lack conscience. Humans are capable of great evil, hate and this was one example.
Egipt Sahu (27 months ago | reply)
Lynching still occurs for Our People today... such a sickening story. To take his Life w/out any proof that he even committed the crime, how much longer can we sit down & see this type of Destruction/ Execution of the Black Male. This child must be Exonerated even in Death. This has gone on for Decades/ Centuries as another way to weaken Our community. I Remember this story, please do not allow this child's death to be in VAIN.. They can fly to the moon surely forensics should've been gathered evidence... yet the Guilty Remained Free... Heart wrenching.. so many of Our Ancestors suffered for us.
makeydah_zenzele (27 months ago | reply)
he looks like a baby to me. I have a 15 year old son and I see him in this child's face. So heartbreaking.
redclover2 (27 months ago | reply)
It's interesting how ALL of these murder cases involving ''negroes'', the so-called trials and jurys lasted for only a day with no evidence or witnesses called. Why did they even bother to have a so-called trial? In their racist minds these ppl were already guilty. Racist ppl have no conscience, so they don't feel guilt, they convince themselves they are superior and justify their behaviour based on that twisted reasoning and mind-set. They feel inferior ppl deserve what they get. This mentality of belittling others is a way for them to feel better about themselves, something they created in their twisted mind. NO ONE is better than ANYONE, We were ALL created by the creator to share this planet. YES Earth is probably the most beautiful but the ppl on it are UGLY, very HATEFUL with ugly deeds, ugly heart. What a SHAME!!!!!!
Air Adam (27 months ago | reply)
Thank you for posting this; it's a heartbreaking story.
wsmithbeyjr (27 months ago | reply)
Thou shall not Kill.Evil people these so called mankind have killed Our People beat Them Hanged Them.Justice is coming One Day for these evil Spirits.KKK did it and One Day Justice will be at Them for these wicked deeds.
Jason W.1 (27 months ago | reply)
This is a sad story, I cant believe anyone would execute a 14 year old boy with no strong proof that he even did the crimes he was being accused of in the first place. I hope when those people seen that mask fall down his face and tears pouring from his eyes, hopefully they were haunted for the rest of their lives with that image. Its so ridiculous how people who posed for thousands of years as God loving Christians killed so many people in the name of God and religion. Then its even more ridiculous that we had "Christians" that thought whites were the only race that mattered in this world, and the crimes, pain, and murder you commit to blacks and others races didnt matter in the eyes of God. Even though the Bible took place not to far from Africa in the first place. I was watching a show once about the KKK on the History channel and the show stated the between the years 1925-1935, there was a estimated 65% of the Republican party who were KKK members. Just to think racist lunatics were allowed to run the country. But the Republicans are no different today, most of them are just afraid to admit theyre racists. But a lot of them came out of the wood work when Obama was elected.
graciegorrell (27 months ago | reply)
Exocet- I feel a really strong need to reply to your posts. I was born in Columbia, SC and we moved up north to PA, rt. outside Philly, then up to NJ, a town about 30 miles from NYC. We later moved to Charlotte, NC for my father to start his own business and I went to college at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. I ended up back in Columbia, to go to grad school and just haven't ever left, as I met my husband here. Your writings and feelings about Joe Wilson and Jim Demint(ed) sound like my own. Have you written those things to them? Please, please do us all a favor and do that. Call their offices anytime a bill is coming up for voting and you disagree with it. Exercise your right to express yourself as an American. I have contacted these legislators numerous times, and I have never, ever felt that they cared at all what their constituents thought or wanted. They have always voted for what they wanted. I somehow thought that they were supposed to represent us. Ha, that's a joke, and a major travesty. We cannot let either of these legislators remain in office another term. I have continually voted against them, and Joe Wilson was uncontested last election. We need to get folks in there who will express what we, the people, want. I get emails from President Obama, and I write back to him or to the First Lady. I feel like they really want to know what we think. The Confederate flag issue is huge. My grandmother was born in 1902. Can you explain, because I can't, how she remembers seeing slaves caned in the fields??? Wasn't the Civil War over in 1865? And 37 years later, she's still seeing slaves caned in the cotton fields. Actually, it was more years than that, as she was at least 5 when she saw this and it made her sick. It turned her stomach and she got sick, seeing the cruelty inflicted on another human being. She had lost three out of five in her g.g'father's family during the Civil War. Her g'father survived, though injured, as was his one remaining brother. Her father was a judge and Strom Thurmond tried his first case in his court. Strom Thurmond, who ended up being the idolized hero of many South Carolinians, because they would go to him and ask for help and he would do his best to help them. Oh, no, certainly not for blacks. I know that. But for some reason, white people in SC just idolized him. I do think he mellowed as he got older, but let's just say I wish all of our legislators from SC were like Fritz Hollings and James Clyburn. But here's another curious thing. When we lived in PA, my parents were the only Democrats in the whole area we lived in. The ONLY Democrats in a suburb of Philly. They were the ONLY ones who voted for President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. My parents remained Democrats their whole voting lives. Thank goodness. I am so much a Democrat that I want that on my headstone when I die. "I lived and died a Democrat." And I'm not kidding. But even with the horrible travesties that occurred in SC, and there were many, I'm sure- I can't even walk near the slave market in Charleston. The energy that still emanates from there is so horrendous that I feel like I'm at a stockyard, with the massive cruelty in the energy at the slave market. I want to make three points, the first being that not everyone who lives in South Carolina is a racist. Not everyone in South Carolina endorses having the Confederate flag flying on the State House. I did think the American flag also flew there. And I wish you could've talked with my father. He was an expert in history and many other subjects, but history was a hobby of his and he would tell you that of course, the Civil War was fought over slavery. Because the economy of the state could not sustain paid employees to work in the fields. It was certainly about slavery and tangentially, the state's economy. I get so frustrated with the politics in this state that I ask my husband all the time about moving to another state. But the thing is that I'm sick, very sick, disabled, and all my drs. are here and the drs I have are very, very good. And where we live, people keep their politics to themselves, except for us-we race to get the "Neighborhood Democratic Headquarters" signs as soon as they call us from the state headdquarters.. We put the Obama stickers on our cars. And proudly. Another point I want to make is that when we lived in PA and in NJ, I heard many racist remarks and have always wondered why people always hold the South in such disfavor, but don't hold any northern states accountable for their racism and bigotry. I have faced racism, when I was one of the few white teachers in an urban school here that was basically completely black, with one family of three white children there and that was all. There were black teachers that I would speak to and they would hold up their heads and not reply at all. That lasted for a good, long time, and they hadn't ever had any reason to be that way towards me. I loved the kids in that school and knew most of them by name, even though I didn't teach them all. Finally, those teachers who had snubbed me, started to gradually speak to me. And the second year I was there was much friendlier than the first year. So, racism goes both ways and that doesn't solve anything. It just doubles the problem. Activities can't be segregated from either race, because if they are, then that connotes racism, no matter which ethnicity it is. And another point-there are a lot of Southern states besides South Carolina. So, why put the emblem of slavery and racism only on South Carolina? I have never lived in a state, including those northern ones, in which there wasn't racism. And both directions, which just makes me want to cry and never stop, as it is so sad. I don't know how many years, or even months, or maybe days, I have left, with these diseases I have. But I know that I have done everything I could to change things in South Carolina. From conversations with other teachers, to lessons and discussions with my students and even their parents, I am not a racist and I don't want to be assumed to be one, just because I'm white and I live in South Carolina. You're going to think this is a cliche, but in my own life, most of the friends that I truly enjoyed spending time with and talking over things with happened to be black. My grandmother made sure that if any black person who lived on the street that she and my g'father did, didn't have enough food or clothing, she took care of getting it for them. My g'father had a men's clothing store, and also sold work uniforms. If anyone came in and couldn't pay, he'd let them have their clothes without any question. If they could pay a dollar a month, that's what they paid. I never once experienced anything but kindness and fairness to all when I was with my grandparents. And I really admire them for that, because it would've been easier for them not to be that way. But instead, they took the right and humane road, which said that everyone has equal rights in these United States and not only that, but they would help protect those rights for others. But hating South Carolina only adds more hatred energy to the equation. Now, I hate Joe Wilson and Jim DeMint(ed), so I certainly understand hatred. But I also know it only adds fuel to the fire. And it runs my blood pressure up, and I'll be damned if I'll let anything add to my health problems because of anything I hate about those two! Please know that there are other people like my husband and I here in South Carolina who are not racist. The day Fritz Hollings said he was going to retire, was a very, very sad day for South Carolina, because we had a liberal minded Democrat who spoke his mind. And who went to bat for all of us. So, now Congressman Clyburn has continued to fight the good fight for our state. And he is really up the ranks in Congress, gaining more and more seniority every day, thank goodness, as he will have more opportunities to really be in major leadership positions, even more than he already has, as his time in the Congress continues. If only we had 250 more like him in Congress, we could really help Pres. Obama accomplish his admirable goals. I understand, as best I can, what you are saying. And with Columbia's population about 50%-50%, things are changing. And hopefully, will continue to change. When I saw that child who had been executed at the age of 14, my God, my God, how in this world can people be so cruel and unjust and incredibly stupid, not to mention having nothing but hatred in their hearts? I will be against the death penalty for my whole life, and always have been. One reason being that way too many innocent people have been put to death. Another reason being that we are supposed to be a civilized society. We should be looking at how to best help anyone who is in prison, and is not a sociopath, get job training, whatever skills training they might need, and teach them how to have a life that includes leisure time that is appropriate, like the wonderful new recreation center that was built in the past several years, including a swimming pool. I love the programs that allow an inmate to take care of an animal, a dog, and continue to take care of that dog in every way. To me, there is not much that is as healing to someone who has experienced a lot of bad things in their lives, than the healing energy of a pet. And I'd wager to say that about 100% of the folks in prisons who have actually committed the crime for which they were convicted, came from homes where they didn't get what they needed and that is another area that needs to be addressed in a rehabilitative model of prison. Thanks for letting me speak my truth.
exocetseye (27 months ago | reply)
Good for you Gracie!! It's just that SC really sticks in my craw whenever I pass through there. It's like the old racist South on steroids. It's the looks you get from the less erudite Whites there (and there are a whole lot of them! LOL). I'm not sure if a White person can pick up on that. Maybe I'm wrong. But I know it when I see it.
WJAR42 (27 months ago | reply)
And to add insult to injury, in 2011, we really haven't come all that far. In some areas we actually seem to be going backwards.
JokerOne2 (27 months ago | reply)
This a part of why some folk, educators included, don't want us 'educated.' Retribution ain't just about being paid for slavery. It's about paying for THIS. If and when it's forgotten, then history can be rewriten - just like taking "the 'N' word" out of Huckleberry Finn. Outta sight, outta mind. The condition of Black people and others is purely a function of their incapacities and has nothing to do with how WE were denied equal footing for .... since we got here up to tomorrow.
Mrtritone (27 months ago | reply)
What a horrible tradgedy!
cwilliams310 (27 months ago | reply)
I am happy that for one there aren't racist people on here leaving comments that he deserved it...like I see on most controversial stories...so amen to that...but this just really saddens my heart...
Samira2012 (27 months ago | reply)
This just made my heart sink and my stomach churn. I was disgusted by the injustice this poor little boy and many like him faced. This is the reason I am afraid for my family because of the labels that are placed on us. I am a Muslim and I feel so afraid when I hear about all the injustices being geared towards my people. It makes a human being lose all hope in this world and in humanity. I just pray that people can at least try to show each other some respect and dignity even if racism, discrimination, bigotry and hate are not abolished in its entirety.
yusufjameelah (27 months ago | reply)
@williams.nc.... I couldn't have said it any better. You go! I feel everything, and every emotion in everything you said. Time has revealed and will only reveal more and more as time goes by who is the enemy as you mentioned. Life has it's way of punishing those who deserves to be punished, and if it doesn't happen on earth, it will surely come for them in the hereafter. I look forward to seeing justice for those who were given an injustice. I look forward to the smiles on those of our forefathers faces who were beaten, made slaves, and tortured when whomever did whatever they did to them, recieves thier payback on the day of Judgement! This is a horrible thing for me, a mother of six, to read. My heart goes out to the mom of that child!!!!
KCCT (27 months ago | reply)
For God's sake, look at those pictures. He's just a child. Reminds me of Emmett Till. And I'm sure there are countless more whose names we don't know. It's a horrible blight on this country, and the very least we can do is do our best to clear their names. Thank you to all who are making the attempts.
mznicole999 (27 months ago | reply)
speechless.... Thanks so much for sharing
ybutler1 (27 months ago | reply)
this story is just so sad and,Down right unjustified
tkto1986 (27 months ago | reply)
i feel it but times r different now in AMERICA! yeah people still get falsely accused but as far as racism is concerned it happens to everyone not just blacks anymore. we need to control the problem in all areas not just one section. racism spans a lot farther than just blacks i bet most people dont know blacks werent the only slaves whites asians indians greeks egyptians romans sierians all the races have been under slavery and long before the blacks were. why the blacks got all the attention is because of the government of the united states of america being formed they were writing history and slavery was a part of americas history so it had a lot of attention but slavery and racism was around a lot longer than the forming of america and blacks werent the first slaves so we need to stop focusing on a group and learn to look at the problem as a whole!
loganxart (27 months ago | reply)
its horrible the injustice people faced thru-out history... but hundreds of thousands of whites were slaves for years before america was ever formed...dont see any of us crying about it...get over it...no american alive today ever owned any slaves.
...its amazes me to see all ranting about human brutality on here. but its obvious you only care for yourselves and "your people"...sad thing its still happening right now but none of you care or will stand up for those folks... right now...there are people being shot, stabbed, kids molested, pregnant mothers denied hospital care, some children are arrested never to be seen again, even worse unspeakable things...all by evil white people, who think you are the goyim...you are their cattle...
these guilty are whites, the innocent, not so white. while you rant about yester-year...bigot filled apartheid zionists kill women and children in the name of god...but you support that, because jesus was a jew and you are sympathetic to jews and their holocaust...
how about the not so white skin Palestinians,...they are being systematically murdered, 3 million of them in concentration caps...but since their muslims, theyre not really human right...besides you support the jews...they make all your rap stars rich, you watch their million dollar puppet athletes on their billion dollar indoctrination outlets...and think wow, we have come so far...really?...what has that rapper or athlete done for you?...
what has Obama done for you?...he gave billions to beyond rich white men, who ripped off poor people like me, and millions of others like you...he maintained an invasion of 3 different not so white peoples country...he gave another 30 billion so white jews could kill brown Palestinians...
do you even care?...or is this more about getting what is yours...what us whites who were not even alive took from you...
hate to tell ya, this poor white guy, couldnt even get a loan for college and Ive worked my ass off for 10+ years...
let me tell ya about slavery...its working 6 days a week, 2 jobs so I can eat, sleep, and shit with a roof over my head...
they dont need any whips now...its a self-imposed slavery...
to the dumbass who said we stole Africans...you are an idiot...Tribal leaders sold the slaves to the whites...so next time you want to bring up what us horrible whites did to you, lets revisit history...when you read some...
White slavery was called: Serfdom, indentured servitude, indentured servants, and indentured laborers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom
Free Men owning slaves...http://americancivilwar.com/authors/ black_slaveowners.htm
...since whites were slaves back in the day...which one of you will be signing my check...
...you fucking contradicting assholes...
(all this nonsense ranting was to inform you that if one of us is not free, none of us are free...regardless of their skin colour...)
exocetseye (27 months ago | reply)
logan...compare the unemployment rate for Whites and to that for Blacks and then kindly go to hell.
loganxart (27 months ago | reply)
haha, is that even relative to the conversation at hand?...i know the numbers...how about looking at the ratio of prisoners in america based on skin colour, even better look at the ratio of white men stealing millions and black men stealing a few dollars...so which group gets more time...
...but is it relative to the way we should treat people...you may have a few facts...but you sound like a bigot to me, a bigot with a fact is still a bigot...
...easy to judge someone, but im sure youve never walked a mile in their shoes...
...if you have nothing useful to add, kindly fuck off...
loganxart (27 months ago | reply)
also remember whites make up over 230 (70%) million of the US population...african americans around 40 (15%)million...your stab at unemployment is paper tiger inspired...
nice try...since im not a racial bigot i wont mention the ratio concerning the number of african americans in prison... compared to say the number of whites in prison, who also by the way outnumber blacks nearly half a dozen times outside of prison...
...how did those bag of dicks taste?...
exocetseye (27 months ago | reply)
The fact that you don't understand the significance and even have the audacity to compare the sufferring of the White majority to that of Blacks just proves you're another Ditto head, Glenn Beck loving racist. I guess you think being "PC" is just too much to handle, too. Go wash your sheets. The shit stains are showing, klansman.
Mario Circello (27 months ago | reply)
Sempre contro la pena di morte!
Firmate l'appello per una moratoria internazionale contro la pena di morte di "Nessuno tocchi Caino" (http://www.nessunotocchicaino.it/areautenti/ firmaonline.php)
PS il mio blog (http://som-mario.blogspot.com/)
willsgurl212 (27 months ago | reply)
Best believe George is at peace with the angels and those so-called law enforcement agents are roasting in hell.
carol7777 (27 months ago | reply)
I thank God that growing up in an Irish/Native American family of 10 siblings, we were not parented to be racist. However, when I left home and moved to Blytheville, Ak in 1969, I saw and heard horrific, racist actions by many people. My husband and I were evicted for inviting a black couple to our apartment for a dinner (her husband and mine were in the Air Force), I was fired from a job there when I gave the "outside" cook a glass of water in side of the business, We were stopped and given a bogus ticket when we left a party one weekend which was in the "black" section, I was shuned at a factory job when I ate lunch out in the parking lot with some black women, and on and on...I came back to upstate New York, older and more wiser. I moved to Florida and when the crap started happening again, I was in a position with the State to fight back and hire who I wanted to hire, making my case heard up to Tallahassee. I live in Alabama now, in Madison, a growing, thriving, progressive area where the cultural mix is international. I know in the past and yes, even still in the present, racism is still alive by the ignorant. We all are one people, one world. The ignorant are not of any God and they will answer for their treatment of other fellow humans. Of course, our children must be taught the truth of history, to read the books written by the people for and of their ancestry. But children also must be parented to love themselves first, to have no fear of becoming what they dream to be. The impossible is possible, no matter what your nationality is. We are one people, we are human beings.
bettyplatt (27 months ago | reply)
yes what abig fucking shame for these ppls to be the way they were then and now.and the worst oart about it is how most of our black mens are still so dumb thah theyhave forgotten where they came from .and im not a racies at all i have biracial grandkid who i love very much.but still ithink each race should stay together.because our mixed kids catch it real hard in the streets and even at schools they'' re treated just as bad as the next black person .my family is black but just our last name makes it hard for us the white polices here in kenosha police hate'my famile so much over half of our kiid are locked for things they have'nt done no matter tyhey tell itso nothing has changed since that lil boy died for no reason.ihope they burn in hell.by betty
bettyplatt (27 months ago | reply)
to all us strng negros stay black and strong for the ones that's been done so wrong in the past our black families in the past long before us and now
bruce_eyster (26 months ago | reply)
This and the other leads on this page are such a horrible testament to the way we , as human beings , treat each other that I am at a loss for words .................
This photo was invited and added to the Áfrikan Portraits group.
cirdm@yahoo.com (23 months ago | reply)
There is something about this story that sirs the souls and hearts of meaningful men and women. It is hard to make whole the aggrieved and the cheated in the past. But we all can make a difference by ensuring that this type of tragedy never again occurs anywhere, here or around the world. I have met men and women around the globe and sought their choices on fairness and all of them, none, denies that there are good and bad souls in all races. We all just have to work hard to help those who are still fighting over their choices, so they do not go astray again. May God help all men and women, all God's children!
hruffin01 (20 months ago | reply)
speechless looking at the sadness in child's face!
IamMiMorena (20 months ago | reply)
I am dumb founded. Speechless. Another example of the atrocities experienced by people of color in this United States