Wednesday 11 February 2015

When America behaved like ISIS: Jesse Washington and the Bible Belt’s dark history of public lynchings

When America behaved like ISIS: Jesse Washington and the Bible Belt’s dark history of public lynchings


They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death. After listening to one newscast after another rightly condemn the barbaric killing of that Jordanian air force pilot at the bloody hands of ISIS, I couldn’t sleep. My mind kept roaming the past trying to retrieve a vaguely remembered photograph that I had seen long ago in the archives of a college library in Texas.

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