Don't Kill My Baby & My Son

[struggle4progress]

... The mother is said to have set little Carrie down by the foot of the bridge as she was being hustled to her execution. A neighbor apparently found the child and took her home. As word spread, white people came to get a look. A photo of the crowd on the bridge shows numerous kids among those gawking at the dangling corpses. The more prominent members of the lynch mob are said to have included Charles Guthrie, a real estate broker and local pol who was also an undersheriff at some point. He continued on with his life and had a son he named Woody the following year ...
The Real Lynchings in SAE’s Oklahoma Backyard
03.12.155:25 AM ET
Michael Daly

as I walked down that old dark town
in the town where I was born,
I heard the saddest lonesome moan
I ever heard before

my hair it trembled at the roots
cold chills run down my spine
as I drew near that jail house
I heard this deathly cry

o don't kill my baby and my son
o don't kill my baby and my son
you can stretch my neck on that old river bridge
but don't kill my baby and my son

Don’t Kill My Baby and My Son
Words and Music by Woody Guthrie

[madaboutharry]

1. The things we learn here.

Thank you for posting.

[progressoid]

2. Indeed. n/t

[mountain grammy]

3. American terrorism.

ISIS is surely familiar with the terror history of the US.

[blackspade]

4. What we have done over the last few centuries to our Black citizens is loathsome.

Disgusting, like all the other white mobs that destroyed lives and anything good that Blacks have tried to achieve.
The perseverance that African Americans have shown is stunning.

[Farmbrook]

5. Thank you for the poignant Reminder

This is why I do not have patience for white America still making excuses for cop killing black unarmed citizens. Today it is a different kind of lynching - legalized by a gun and a badge. Rest in Peace Laura Nelson and your unarmed negro son. I hope your daughter was able to live a full life. I stand on your shoulders. #BlackLivesMatter.