PoIitoad
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- Posted: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:09:55 +0000
xThe Goblin Queenx
How can anyone say we don't need black history month.
Perhaps you've heard of Emmit Till?
Considering your lack of respect probably not.
Emmit Till was a 14 year old boy. In 1955 on August 28th, he was kidnapped and and beaten with a pistol, then his attackers tied him up and shot him in the head. After he was dead they tied him to a 70 pound fan and threw him in the river.
They attackers were arrested, and then found not guilty.
In 2001 Raynard Johnson a 17 year old black male as hung from a tree for whistling at a white girl.
There are 154 known cases of black woman lynchings.
And now you're thinking that was in the past we've learned.
In 2009 58 hate crimes took place. One third of them were targeted at black people.
My mother is of mixed races, when she was pregnant with me she used to pray, that I wouldn't look like her so I would never have to feel the pain she did.
Can you imagine praying your child doesn't look like you? Because you've suffered because of you're skin colour?
How can you look at all the people who have suffered and say that we don't need a month to remember them.
They deserve a whole damn year.
You should be thinking of all the people who died, all the people who where beaten, all the people who cried over a lost child because someone took them away because they where black.
I am disgusted that you can think of these people and not care about them.
Just disgusted.
Perhaps you've heard of Emmit Till?
Considering your lack of respect probably not.
Emmit Till was a 14 year old boy. In 1955 on August 28th, he was kidnapped and and beaten with a pistol, then his attackers tied him up and shot him in the head. After he was dead they tied him to a 70 pound fan and threw him in the river.
They attackers were arrested, and then found not guilty.
In 2001 Raynard Johnson a 17 year old black male as hung from a tree for whistling at a white girl.
There are 154 known cases of black woman lynchings.
And now you're thinking that was in the past we've learned.
In 2009 58 hate crimes took place. One third of them were targeted at black people.
My mother is of mixed races, when she was pregnant with me she used to pray, that I wouldn't look like her so I would never have to feel the pain she did.
Can you imagine praying your child doesn't look like you? Because you've suffered because of you're skin colour?
How can you look at all the people who have suffered and say that we don't need a month to remember them.
They deserve a whole damn year.
You should be thinking of all the people who died, all the people who where beaten, all the people who cried over a lost child because someone took them away because they where black.
I am disgusted that you can think of these people and not care about them.
Just disgusted.
Actually yes I do. He was the kid who got his faced ******** up. Hard to forget. Imagine how many other kids have got their face ******** up and still don't have a month.