Sentences with phrase «of lynchings of»

The initiative's contribution to the show includes an interactive video display documenting (without the use of explicit photographs) thousands of lynchings of black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Ghana was thrown into a state of despair on Monday, May 29, 2017, when the news of the lynching of a military officer detailed at Denkyira - Obuasi in the Central Region broke.

The Jade Pendant: This docudrama tells the story of the lynching of 18 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles in 1871.

Not exact matches

In addition to interviewing leading legal scholars and activists, like Angela Davis, DuVernay said she reviewed about 1,000 hours of archival footage, including of images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse, and The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D.W. Griffith film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan (and was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson).

We understand criticizing a famous artist is a good way to draw attention to those goals... we will vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man» pic.twitter.com/ByC9SR 0vtD

«It was obvious, from the start, that the DoJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,» Smith wrote.

One pro-lynching activist, speaking in 1897 during the heyday of lynching — an extrajudicial form of capital punishment — was more explicit: «If it takes lynching to protect woman's dearest possession from drunken, ravening human beasts... then I say lynch a thousand a week if it becomes necessary.»

Screenshots of the account shared on social media showed messages with racial slurs, a calendar invite for a «daily lynching» and old images of African - American lynchings.

«He couldn't have been more supportive of making sure we got convicted the murderers of the last black man who was lynched by the Klan,» said former Justice Department attorney Barry Kowalski, who worked with Sessions.

At the University of Oklahoma, a fraternity sang about the virtues of lynching.

Indeed, this is the lynch pin of our whole negotiation with North Korea.

Also Tuesday, hundreds of Israeli Arabs marched in Shfaram in northern Israel to remember a 2005 attack in which an Israeli deserter and Kach member shot dead four people on a bus before being lynched.

The historical narrative of lynching has often left out women and children, but the reality was much more complex.

They come amid growing scrutiny of blunders Facebook has made in policing content around the globe — from riots and lynchings sparked by the spread of hate speech and misinformation in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, to inflammatory posts attacking religions and races — even after U.S. users flagged them.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the top - ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called for the head of AIG to resign over comments he made comparing outrage over executive bonuses to lynchings that took place...

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

The professor has an interesting take on this subject, but it will be a long time before the lynch mobs will come around to this type of thinking.

The majority of Christians do not fit into the «Klansman» or «lynch mob» extremes.

103,536 1,033,000 9/11 (2001) 2,996 2,996 Afghanistan War (2001 - present) 57,774 77,774 Lynchings by KKK, etc. (Since 1882) 4,733 4,733 Siege of Jerusalem (70) 1,100,000 1,100,000 Serbian War (1992 - 1995) 96,667 96,667 Arab - Israeli Wars (1945 - 1995) 92,000 92,000 Lebanese Civil War (1975 - 1990) 130,000 250,000

A March 16, 1891, editorial referred to the victims of the lynchings as ``... sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins.»

Interesting you put the Klan lynchings... I heard of stretching, but again I guess it is what a person brings to his or her interpretation of findings.

Read the comment again — it says every Klansmen, member of a lynch mob etc considers / considered themselves Christian.

He describes «the largest mass lynching in U.S. history,» the victims of which were Italian - Americans, in New Orleans in 1891.

After slavery Christian terrorist using the name Ku Klux Klan burned crosses and lynched Black people and other people of color for eighty years or more.

What was the reaction of our country's leaders to the lynchings?

For over three hundred years slaves were lynched, castrated and murdered in the name of Jesus.

That hatred was so strong as to occasion all kinds of abuse: racial slurs, exploitive entertainment, beatings, lynchings and even bombs.

John Parker, who helped organize the lynch mob, later went on to be governor of Louisiana.

People burned as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people killed in human sacrifices, servants killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people killed in various cultures because they were deemed to have offended God in some way, and so on.

This explains why the founders of the KKK were Christians and most lynchings of blacks in the 20th century were committed by Christians.

That's the point; even the most racist members of the KKK back in the 60's believed they were being good Christians when they lynched blacks and bombed Jewish homes.

Yes, the Palestinian Authority can still censor damaging video footage, as it did in the case of the mob lynching of two Israeli soldiers, and the Israeli government can put its spin on the news.

My racist relatives in Mississippi used to talk about the moral decay brought by integrating black people into white society... of cours, e they didn't complain about the cross burnings or lynchings being moral decay..

I'm sure that the KKK saw burning crosses and lynching people as just part of their job as «educators» too.

Not to derail the particulars of this conversation... But the logic you use here needs to be elevated for the Black Lives Matter movement and the lynchings of Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and so many others.

During our conversation, he spent more time decrying rioting and calling for calm and prayer than lamenting the modern - day lynching by law enforcement of innocent black bodies that are piling up across the nation.

We think of rapes and murders, lynchings and muggings, beatings and armed robberies.

Suggest this and prepare for a lynching, yet isn't this merely a negative expression of doing unto others as you would have done to you though frowned upon besuace there are better ways.

The Cross and the Lynching Tree (and The Warmth of Other Suns) helps fill in those blanks.

Not - so - distant history is replete with «good Christians» participating in lynchings, feuds, duels, secret attacks in the middle of the night, and more.

The whole media lynch mob thing just distracted us from a thoughtful discussion of the issues.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

Their «whites only» version of the gospel compelled them to ignore the perspectives of black people, refuse to address lynching, and deny the value of black lives.

If they are people of the books (Christians or Jews), classify them as «dhimmis» and make them pay a special tax (Jizya) to the Islamic government, or they should be enslave, rob, rápe, and lynch them as you please unless they convert to Islam.

From that time on, executions took place within the confines of prisons — except for lynchings, which continued in some areas of the country without legal sanction.

That is what is wrong with the kind of lynch mob mentality we see today — blanket condemnation and then l.u.s.t. for vengeance (with a vengeance) Duke U., the I.M.F guy in NYC, Casey Anthony It is actually (frightening) to see the cry for some kind of lynching..

Just as not every white person went out and lynched African Americans, not every Muslim man and woman plants bombs or promotes acts of terrorism.

This story is simply business as usual, in an uncivilized area like Texas, home of Bush, Perry, and the last lynching in the entire country.

NO MORE LYNCHING OR MURDETING MILLIONS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY DISAGRER WITH YOU OR HAVE BECOME A TARGET TO BLAME FOR YOUR OWN INABILITY TO DAL WITH LIFES PROBLEMS ONE OF WHICH IS THE ECONOY MAKING AJUSYMENS.

The bible Belt is also the lynching belt, the segregation belt, the military belt, the illiteracy belt - When I read the Gospels I read Jesus telling me about the kind of relationship i should have with God and my fellows - how I should live how I should behave - we are supposed to care for the poor not lower taxes for the rich and tell poor kids with no health insurance to suck it up - starting a war is not Christian regardless of the provocation Why do you need the 10 commandments on the wall in the courthouse when every town has multiple churches let the churches put up signs with the commandments - do you know what Moses did when he came down the mountain - he lead his most trusted men is a slaughter of 3000 Jews, read it