Officials: DOJ to announce no charges against Zimmerman in Martin shooting

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Ted Kennedy is the first I can remember

There were plenty before him. Good ole' southern boyz killing themselves some colored folk - all of them. The EJI just released a paper on that.

[Darnell 8,478]

Stupid for the DOJ to get involved in this case

Not at the time. A bit later, I agree. Now, nowish, with Holder gone, who's driving? is Good Banal Barry's 'son' not get 'justice', aye?

I love's all the division created because of it. It really rocks my world...

[lostinblue 1,989]

There were plenty before him. Good ole' southern boyz killing themselves some colored folk - all of them. The EJI just released a paper on that.

You are blaming all the southern folks on the sins of a few good ole boys... Where is Marvin to protest this injustice .

Edited February 26, 2015 by lostinblue

[decocker 7,198]

You are blaming all the southern folks on the sins of a few good ole boys... Where is Marvin to protest this injustice .

you're another one who can't quite grasp a point.

Dozens of newspapers around the country covered the release of the report. Many writers emphasized the importance of acknowledging racial terrorism and identified the absence of public memorials about lynching as a powerful statement about our failure to value African American lives. Editorial boards across the country agreed that, as the New York Times put it, "this history needs to be properly commemorated and more widely discussed before the United States can fully understand the causes and origins of the racial injustice that hobbles the country to this day."

Hundreds of individuals responded to the report, which sparked a great deal of reflection and discussion on social media. Many people shared how the terror of lynching and the failure to acknowledge it has impacted their families and communities. One writer in Louisiana wrote:

"In 1994, on his deathbed, my grandfather confessed to my parents that he had been part of a lynch mob that had killed a black man for raping a white woman. I don't know when this was–probably the late 1930s or 1940s. The sheriff had called the white men together to do the deed. My grandfather helped build the gallows. The rape victim confessed shortly thereafter that the black man had been not her rapist, but her lover. My grandfather carried this guilt all his life. Of course he never had to answer for what he did. None of them did.

I wish I knew the name of that lynched man, if only so I could find out what happened to the family that he left behind. The ignorance among white people here of my generation (I'm 48) about all that came before us in terms of racial conflict is near total. Nobody talks about it. Ever."