#Black Men Lynched

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A official state marker remembers John Tucker, a Black man beaten to death on July 4, 1845, on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, at the intersection of Illinois and Washington Streets in Indianapolis. Tucker, a freedman from Kentucky and father of two, was attacked after leaving a Fourth of July celebration while walking along Washington Street, and beaten to death by three white men while a crowd looked on. One attacker served three years while the other two served no time. (Michelle Pemberton/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The story of a Black man beaten to death in Indianapolis in a racist 1845 lynching is now part of the city’s cultural trail in the form of a historical marker.

The marker describing John Tucker’s slaying was unveiled Saturday by state and local leaders and members of the Indiana Remembrance Coalition, The Indianapolis Star reported. It was placed along downtown Indianapolis’ cultural trail close to where Tucker was killed nearly 180 years ago.

“Uncovering and documenting uncomfortable history is an obligation that we all must share. We must always seek to tell the full story of our history,” Eunice Trotter, director of Indiana Landmark’s Black Heritage Preservation Program, said at the unveiling.

Tucker was born into slavery in Kentucky around 1800 and later obtained his freedom. He moved to Indianapolis in the mid-1830s and was a father to a boy and a girl.

On July 4, 1845, Tucker was assaulted by a white laborer, Nicholas Wood, as Tucker walked along Washington Street. He defended himself while retreating up Illinois Street, after which Wood and two other white men beat Tucker to death. A crowd gathered to watch.

Wood was later convicted of manslaughter, “a rarity in an era when Black Hoosiers could not testify in court,” the marker reads. The other men involved in his beating death served no time.

Tucker’s lynching forced his children into a legal battle over his property and perpetuated generational trauma for the family he left behind, said Nicole Poletika, a historian and editor of Indiana History Blog.

While often associated with hangings, the term lynching actually is broader and means “to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal approval or permission,” according to Merriam-Webster.

Lynchings in Indiana from the mid-1800s to 1930 “intentionally terrorized Black communities and enforced the notion of white supremacy,” the historical marker states. Trotter said lynchings were not uncommon and happened in communities across the state.

“Having the knowledge of such instances forces us to confront some of the most harmful, painful layers of the African American experience in Indiana,” she said. “Acknowledging them is an important part of the process of healing and reconciliating and saying that Black lives matter.”

[devouredmelancholy]

Ross lynch (One of Your Girls - Troye Sivan)

[susansontag]

this person is seriously trying to suggest that black men were lynched because of anti-rape rhetoric gone mad, rather than white supremacy and racism. for clarity, the majority of black men who were murdered were themselves accused of murder, but do we say that lynchings happened because of anti-murder rhetoric gone mad? no. because the majority of those terrorising black people knew these accusations were lies or themselves propagated those lies. you can’t claim someone has gone too far with an idea they don’t actually believe. this must be disingenuousness at this point

[tooquirkytolose]

I've been watching videos and following reporters in gaza documenting all the destruction and aggression and it's horrible, but for some reason i found the videos of israelis moking prisoners with children's songs even more unnerving. It's objectively not as bad, but something about seeing people delight in the cruelty, and how kids are taught to dehumanize others so young, it gets under my skin and disturbs me

Yeah like I've seen some horrible shit (all those videos and photographs of dead bodies, which I personally do not like to share but I GET why people do) but something about seeing people being so balls off the wall cartoonishly evil and then posting about it online for the clout gave me such a visceral reaction like nothing else

[icybloggss]

🎃HAPPY HALLOWEEEN WITCHES🎃

🎃here’s my section of fineee men I will get SLUTTY 4🎃

[indielowercase]

all women are oppressed and all men are oppressors. thats what patriarchy is. dumbass

This ask came in because I responded to a post about radical feminism and TERFs, saying it tends toward "race blindness," which refuses to acknowledge the realities of racism.

"Emmett Louis Till[...] was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store"

"On May 25, a clip captured in a section of the famed park known as "The Ramble" generated attention on Twitter. In it, a White woman called the cops after a Black birdwatcher asked her to leash her dog, per park regulations."

Jury: Former Seattle cop discriminated against black man using golf club as cane

A Brief History of The Women's KKK- JSTOR

Why White Women Keep Calling The Cops On Black People: "[T]he power of white men has always been ubiquitous, and so the abuse of their power was easily seen. But white women and their fears represent a less public terror – their gender obscuring the lethality of their tactics. Lying is a minor concern as long as the social order between races is maintained.

Identifying as the victim allows the women in these scenarios to maintain both innocence and ignorance"

There is a long history of white women's presumed innocence being used to justify violence against and oppression of men of color. This is not even bringing up how people's sexuality, class, and ability status are effected by social power structures. This anonymous ask is very much proving my point.

[malfoyx]

- Ross Lynch Photographed by Damon Baker

[h3sjustq]

I don’t take L’s, I learn lessons..

[acciotde]

my twitter layouts p.2

Ross Lynch icons × Marvel Headers

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Black Woman Arrested for Helping Black Man Avoid Lynch Mob

On Sunday, October 1, 1939, Sampson County, North Carolina, Sheriff C.C. Tart arrested a young Black woman for helping Andrew Troublefield, a 21-year-old Black man, avoid being lynched.

The previous day two white women accused Mr. Troublefield of assault. Without verifying the women’s stories, Sheriff Tart led a mob of 500 white people in pursuit of Mr. Troublefield with the intention, as newspapers reported, to lynch him without trial if he was caught.

A young Black woman who saw the mob on its way shouted after Mr. Troublefield as he fled, attempting to warn him. Sheriff Tart arrested and detained this woman for her efforts. He also arrested Mr. Troublefield’s younger brother, who encouraged him to flee from the mob.  

Black people were often prosecuted or even lynched for complaining about white mob violence or assisting other Black people in avoiding lynch mobs.

Mary Turner was lynched in Georgia in 1918 for complaining about the lynching of her husband. Jim Cross condemned a lynching in Letohatchee, Alabama, in 1900, and a white mob came to his house and lynched him, his wife, and both of his children. Criminal prosecution, threat, and violence were tactics used to insulate perpetrators of racial terror lynchings from accountability.

The Sampson County lynch mob grew to over 1,000 white people. They spent over a week in the woods searching for Mr. Troublefield, until police from neighboring Wayne County arrested him on October 8. Wayne County’s chief of police transferred Mr. Troublefield directly to North Carolina’s death row, despite him being convicted of no crime at the time. Mr. Troublefield remained on death row until his trial in February. 

On February 15, 1940, Judge R. Parker sentenced Mr. Troublefield to 30 years in prison for attempted rape. The conviction rested entirely on the testimony of the two alleged victims. During the trial, white mobs stood on the courthouse lawn, demanding a more severe sentence and grumbling about “what ought to have been done” to Mr. Troublefield. Threats of violence continued as the highway patrol transported Mr. Troublefield back to Central Prison in Raleigh. Neither the Sheriff nor any of the mob leaders were ever held accountable for this attempted lynching.

Racial terror lynchings and near lynchings inflicted massive trauma on entire Black communities. White mobs acted with impunity, lynching entire families, conducting lynchings in public, and terrorizing Black people who tried to help their neighbors.

Perpetrators of these lynchings hoped to keep Black people in a state of perpetual fear and subordination. EJI has documented nearly 6,500 racial terror lynchings between 1865 and 1950, including two in Sampson County, North Carolina.

Learn more about Lynching in America here.

[roobylavender]

it’s really quite concerning to me how many people are black and white about bruce’s no killing rule (esp in recent years) bc i don’t think there’s a full cognizance yet of how easily that insistence upon all killing being the same and equally deplorable can facilitate the white supremacist rhetoric that believes killing oppressors is equivalent to killing the oppressed, anti-racism is equivalent to racism, etc. it’s why it’s always odd to me how mike w. barr is such a frowned upon batman writer for depicting a bruce who will not necessarily go out of his way to kill but will not save certain villains either bc he understands the egregious of their crimes and inflicted harm upon humanity. it’s a “gray area” that’s necessary to explore esp when taking into account the harm inflicted upon marginalized communities at large, and even then barr wasn’t free from falling prey to the rhetoric that all intentional violence is equivalent regardless of which race or class of people it was perpetuated by. obv i agree with most people that in context of under the red hood bruce is right to not use his vigilantism as an excuse to play god and decide who lives or dies, and i always make the point that bruce originally was intent to kill the joker only to be stopped from doing so by other people. but i wonder now if the conclusions to under the red hood and jason’s depiction thereafter inadvertently allowed for the facilitation of that white supremacist rhetoric i mentioned earlier bc jason being written by a white writer didn’t allow for a proper contention with the topic of marginalized communities and their relationship with violent resistance. the complexity of the no kill rule and whether it enables oppressors (even in cases where bruce is more lenient and willing to allow villains to die despite not pulling the trigger himself) is something that needs to be addressed by nonwhite writers specifically, and it’s no wonder that the potential for really potent social commentary with it is all but absent in the modern day considering main batman titles have never been written by anyone other than white men, not to mention the genre is alarmingly christian dominated now despite its jewish anti-fascist origins 

[stemcellstencil]

A few things come to mind other than just your typical oh that’s awful, so sad…

The white racists I know with these names.

Very low low frequency trash energies. Revised stories for what and why.

Sometimes black Americans even … men specifically.. will try and jealously push me.

“I’m an ordained priest.”

No you’re not. You’re a damn drug dealer who wants to sell women.

— but why push me?

[sammieham]

Kaz is hot.

No man like him would ever look twice at me. In fact, Kaz would most definitely mock me into oblivion and steal everything physically and spiritually of value to me and make a joke about it later to his crew. He might even just throw me off a roof or something for the lolz, but dammit he’s hot. I always have a thing for the morally gray fictional men who would do similar things to that^ example I have. Kaz is no different than the rest of them.

I swoon.

[jyndor]

im gonna need to hear what Black fans think of clem’s execution because ... hmm. something about a Black man being hanged for the emotional backstory of a non-Black person feels off

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