“Talking About History Is Way to Liberate America”: New Memorial Honors Victims of White Supremacy
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- democracynow.org - The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened last week in Montgomery, Alabama-a monument to victims of white supremacy in the United States. The memorial’s centerpiece is a walkway with 800 weathered steel pillars overhead, each of them naming a U.S. county and the people who were lynched there by white mobs. In addition to the memorial dedicated to the victims of lynching, its partner site, the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, also opened last week. For more, we speak with Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, the nonprofit behind the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the country’s first-ever memorial to the victims of lynching in the United States.
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You can’t learn from your mistakes if you aren’t aware of them. Not learning about these crimes is a windfall for the descendants of the guilty at the expense of the descendants of the victims.
How the hell do people who have murdered someone like that live with themselves everyday? How sickening of a mind they must have.... I'm so glad we are pushing for moral values and human lives these days.
This guy say WE should be ashamed of what was done to native Americans, no blacks have nothing to be ashamed of they did nothing wrong to native Americans.
Education, education, education!
Thank you for this wonderfully informative
program. I feel I need to travel to Montgomery to experience the museum. It is so necessary to
educate the public to what was happening on a daily basis, here in the south. So many lives lost!!
Something tells me there is no mention of how common lynching was in the USA in general.
inotaishu1 "Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968." (from a wiki entry). For some reason, they seem to have forgotten the 1300 whites.
+watcherjohnny Probably don't want to admit how evil they are that they would kill their own for helping blacks.
watcherjohnny, Taylor, I would suspect that the reason is rather these insane "victim olympics" that they have. If you want to point out the bigger number of black lynch victims, that is fine as that is the truth but considered the number of white lynch victims as well as e.g. the fact that possibly the most horrific case was where were a pretty "multicultural" crowd lynched a Chinese man, points to the fact that this is not a white supremacist problem but rather a widespread American problem. So I would say it is way more serious and by omitting that you run the risk of basically not changing anything at all.
+inotaishu1 I don't doubt that other races were hung. It is so sad how brutal humans are to one another. It is economic inequality that causes people to suppress one group in order to gain more for self. My great great grandfather was a white man who left his white wife to marry one of two sisters while at the same time created two separate families with the two sisters. The first offspring children passed for white. Was it white intent to erase dark skins or just love?
One day, people will say the same about this generation and police shootings.
THESE inhumane NOTHINGS... would congregate, as a spectacle...
we are a GUILTY nation
This Democracy Now broadcast on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and interview of Brian Stevenson of the Equal Justice Institute. This needs to be seen and heard by today's youth and those who are marching for change today. March On! Let's stop this racial terrorism and build a nation of pride for everyone.
I suggest people read The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 1st Edition by Richard Rothstein
Yes
THANK YOU FOR THIS ADVICE!!! @Purple Glitter
Then read the The Destruction Of The Black Civilization Great Issue Of A Race From 4500 B.C To 2000 A.D and Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
@@ronniecollins7313 Already have that book from chancellor williams. Focusing on our history in America now. We need to know that too because those ancestors are even closer to us
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I don't know if he's aware of it, but I truly believe God is using Bryan Stevenson to do this work. He speaks so eloquently about it, as he encourages truth and reconciliation.
This is what I call a sad and emotional history to be told. But their are people who celebrate Confederate day and dead Confederate general birthday but these same people are not willing to pay reparation for slaves, Jim Crow law, and police brutality during the 1900 to the 1960. The American Japanese, Jewish people and Chinese was given reparation for WW1 AND WW2 for cruelty at the hand of USA and Germany. The American Indians reparation was a joke. But nothing for those who was slaves.
I feel sad realy lost for words i know the story of emmet till that hurt my heart it make my 15 year old son cry he say he's glad he was not born in America
My family migrated to Chicago in 1902 as a large family group from Arkansas. I'm happy to see more scholarship about this.
You already know Puerto Rican's either went 2 Ny or Chicago cauz' of the SAME thing.
Rafael Pena totally makes sense. Chicago was the one of the first sanctuary cities for all sorts of immigrants and civil refugees truth be told.
Someone send this documentary to Kanye West or have Common do so?!
When the truth of injustice doesn't provoke ignorance onto action to stand for equality we are lost. Psalms 83:1-5. For the wheels of Justice seem to roll slowly, the day of recompense for those who
know better but choose to stay silent. Against the Laws that still are on the books. Not to allow Us the ability to purchase land, Segregate property to redline area's to elevate and divide Land. Yes your History is noted and recorded, The lie's and privileges you now have will one day become of less value and the turn of tide when the shoes on the other foot will be a shameful reality. And will at
last wake to the fact of admitting wrong. Long overdue but acknowledgement. There is a God and in eternity the pain and suffering you'll bear will be forever. Sad that pride and greed with hate has drove you to this reward. Tho shall not Kill ! yet after church to bring your family to a lynching. What kind of God do you serve?
thank you Brian Stevenson
Germany has done it to commemorate the Holocaust, South Africa achieved it via the Truth & Reconciliation Commission to facilitate collective or mutual healing
Thank you for this outstanding story and interview. I am so impressed with the efforts and liberating truth of the two museums. Bravo for this coverage!
Ty
I appreciate this effort to give our ancestors some type of memorial but there isn't enough space and pillars to account for the people of color that were murdered, slaughtered, killed, maimed, dismembered and so much more. Our people went through so much atrocities even after the so called end of slavery in 1865. 1619 and counting........
For ending slavery in the civilized world...you're welcome. - White Guy.
Glory as sung by Yolanda Adams and Common🕯
This is so sad and a deep conversation
RISE ABOVE HATE
To late.
The only way this mess will stop. Is when the Lord Jesus Christ sets up His Kingdom on earth.
Thanks For Being Instrumental IN Having This Memorial Building BEING Build to Know This Ugly Sinful History BEING TOLD! Minister Joyce Lynn Pledger!
We are God’s chosen people,We are the children that have been lost in the wilderness as the Bible states..there are bad people of every color and good people of every color...For my children and my grandchildren and my great grand children and so on..I always want them to know are history and what we as black people..As they call us!!!Have went through so they could vote,sit at the front of the bus,use the same bathroom..Slavery was worst then then the holhoust has ever been..because it does not end
White supremacy or white savagrey?
If you wanna talk about histroy to liberate America, better be talking about Communism. Fun fact, it was the Communist Party in America who first introduced the idea of ani-lynching laws.
And this is what makes Kanye"s recent statements so utterly deplorable and despicable. He is being used to dispel or make this kind of great work illegitimate.
How do we acknowledge these murders??? How do we??? Oh, my God, 😪😪😪😪😪😪
Like every conservative troll hijacked thread/forum, there is so much "out ya ass" history and perspectives in the preceding comments, you may end up thinking that you're on another planet.
My opinion is that he needs to not you the word we when he is speaking of the terror in which the white race has inflected on us people of color and native Indians.
Important
Misinformation MISeducation MANipulation MEDication
Germany has done it to commemorate the Holocaust, South Africa achieved it via the Truth & Reconciliation Commission to facilitate collective or mutual healing
Well -- the history of America consist of two histories, parallel histories, a people's history and a ruling class history.
For example, the Dutch and British, et al Jamestown and Plymouth Rock was a founding of the beginnings of a settlement but it was not the first settlement that was a founding of America. St. Augustine, Florida 1565 is as much a founding of a new country and even more so than Jamestown or Plymouth Rock.
Another example, the US military was founded in 1775 formed of civilian-soldiers, militia became a Continental Army was disbanded and has no connection to the history of the modern military industrial complex which came into being in 1935 as the dominant history maker in 2018.
What are you talking about? Your comment seems to be a distraction from the topics of lynching, terrorism against black people, etc.
Your comment exemplifies the problem of ignoring, avoiding, and talking the history of slavery, lynching, segregation, injustice and the lack of repentance in order to heal and fix the racial injustice I America
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A couple thousand lynched criminals are of no concern. What about the millions of victims of black crime?
The blacks that were raped, mained, tortured, beaten, and lynched during slavery and Jim Crow are countless. There is no comparison to what blacks endured during these periods in America. Murder and those things that may cause it, i.e, hatred is wrong regardless of the victim. But please don't equate the inhumanity and degradation of the past to crimes of today.
Denial, police are still lynching black unarmed people for committing no crime except being perceived as suspicious
Gay
Stupid waste of money I ever saw..
Denial, Germans did it to avoid another Holocaust
Everyone got to live in the past!
Germany has done it to discourage future generations from reenacting the Holocaust
This is BS.. IS NOT MOVING FORWARD... IT IS JUST STIRRING UP HATE
😂😂😂😂Esau.Yeah Amerikkkan history is disgusting 🤮
No people need to know how white people are and also black people needs closure that's all. Hate will always be around
Oh shut up, so I suppose jews who speak about the holocaust are stirring up hatred against Germans.
These truths MUST be told,if it.makes you feel uncomfortable too bad.
Germany has done it to discourage future generations from reenacting the Holocaust
Just think, Jesus died on a tree but yet people taught that Jesus died on a cross.
This is not a way to honor victims. This is more mind manipulation of black people, our perception of ourselves and how others view us (similar to the feed Africa commercials, over whelming depiction of interracial couples, the funding of music and tv that degrade us). I do not support the building of this statue or the man who built it. Shame on him. Tear it down. Tear it down now!
CinnamonComplex Nicely said.
It's a friggin' museum. It's not like they placed pillars around public parks, it's in a museum. There are still thousands of streets, parks, statues and busts celebrating racist confederate generals and slavemasters around the country, IN PUBLIC SPACES! Don't you think those have some "mind manipulative" powers?
BunniesForSale I don't care about some old confederate statue from 100 years ago. And no they don't have the same effect on black people as this type of statue. Black poeple wasn't even thinking about those statues until the media started bringing it up, so they can fan a pretend conversation about race. But never quite being completely open and honest. They were just trying to get both sides upset. They don't give a fuck about Black people, our history, honoring any Damn thing, or, whether or not some confederate statue that we never thought about bothers us in any way. Don't fall for the hype. There are many more pressing and important issues going on in some of our communities that are completely ignored, but they want to discuss statues of my people with chains around their necks. No way. I'm not buying it.
I don't think this monument fits into the other things you listed. A lot of people don't understand the extent of the damage done by slavery so it is important that the history is clear. This is how we explain why the state of black America is in shambles. Otherwise they and we continue to blame ourselves as if we created this mess.
Purple Glitter a statue doesn't explain anything. It doesn't put any aspect of history into context nor does it reveal anything about the state of black America today. This statue is more about the optics and affects the self esteem of black children. I do not want commemorate slavery with an iron statue of black people in chains. Sorry if you don't see it that way but please believe this statue ain't got nothing to do with remembering or honoring anything. Just their ability to relive their works. That's why they make slave movies. To get off on it and to remind black folk the position they had our ancestors in. If that wasn't the case there would be broader depictions of those times such as movies on slave rebellions, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, Marcus garvery, black Panthers, etc. Don't be naive young lady.
This is empty virtue signaling.
Germany has done it to discourage future generations from reenacting the Holocaust. White South Africans reckoned with past atrocities unleashed on black victims of Apartheid during truth & reconciliation hearings
Then don't take down Confederate statues. Allow people to talk about the history. Don't try and censor or erase it
Derrick Wade i agree
Brandon Toad these statues and monuments are conversation pieces. If the people are not reminded of the awful history then how can a society truly avoid repeating mistakes of the past?
Derrick Wade, you're partially correct, but there's a place for such conversations. That place is the classroom. Move these statues into museums, where students, intellectuals and history enthusiasts can go study their history. A statue is literally the most basic form of glorification, going back to the Old Testament.
I agree because if you take them down it will be easier for them to deny it happened.
BunniesForSale..Right..some religion's WORSHIP statues..
"There were also black-on-black lynchings, with 125 recorded Between 1882 and 1903". I wonder why you forgot to mention this. On a per capita basis, I'd say blacks held their own in the lynching department.
ANGELENE R Deflect? My dear, I'm not deflecting. I'm simply stating fact. No rational person would deny that blacks were lynched by whites. There were even some whites that were lynched by blacks. Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. Translated, one third of all lynchings in that time period were whites. To view lynching in America as purely a phenomenon of "white racism" does nothing to further a wider understanding of American history, and our sometimes sordid past.
Cassie Reno How so?
Cassie Reno Your ancestors are nasty and demons.
watcherjohnny source?
Rebel Natty LocX en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States#Statistics Interesting reading.