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The story about the two children dying because their father was accused of a crime is terrible. The text states “In the case of the boy and girl above referred to, their father, named Hastings, was accused of the murder of a white man, his fourteen year old daughter and sixteen year old son were hanged and their bodies fined with bullets, then the father was also lynched.” This description totally reflects the ideology held by the southern common values and completely illegitimated the other offenses charged to the blacks; if they are able to do something like this, they are definitely capable of framing or wrongfully committing someone to a crime. It’s like Frederick Douglass said: “if American moral sensibility were not hardened by persistent infliction of outrage and crime against colored people, a scream of horror, shame, and indignation would rise to Heaven...”
This kind of attention is still around today. I saw Carlos Cortez speak yesterday about the way that media affects diversity, and he talked about the Amanda Lynch incident and how the public eye was shifted to focus on her harrowing escape from a prison camp. Little did any of us know but there were two other people with her a Black woman and also a Native American woman who died in the process, however, we were not aware of their story as the media focused on Ms. Lynch. I’m not going to blatantly point any fingers, but Jessica Lynch is white, and her story was the only one to be publically acknowledged... you may draw the conclusions.
I wanted to know the rest of the story about the imbecile lynching on page 79 of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett handout. It is extremely interesting to the extent upon which the judiciary power of Alabama thought it could go. So I looked it up feel free to check it out if you have a strong emotional foundation: http://books.google.com/books?id=ilJKjn9NNW0C&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=Hamp+Biscoe&source=web&ots=STwVbkdLOW&sig=b14vcEdWh6tY_TT6yx79WpgqozA&hl=en&ei=lgyJSZ9qiKI1y8S81wc&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result