Wednesday, October 26, 2011

America's shame: The lynching of Claude Neal

How a colored man was lynched and then mutilated by a "white mob" 77 years back. Till to date, the criminals responsible for this have not been brought to justice.

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This is how the white man decides to wreak havoc (warning: reader discretion advised. May offend your sensibilities):

About 1 a.m., headlamps danced through the woods as a line of cars rolled into the yard. Behind one, a rope jerked as the car hit bumps. The body on the end of the rope was covered with dust and blood. A man standing on the back sliced the rope, and the body slid limp.
Lola Cannady's mother and sister were first to the corpse. They slashed it with their knives. Her brother cut off a finger. George Cannady, crying, pumped bullets into Neal's body. Men, women and children, some just toddlers, walked past the corpse and stabbed it with sticks. They kicked the dead man's body, spit on it and drove their cars over it. 
When they had finished, the men threw the corpse onto the running board of a car and left for Marianna. At the courthouse square, they hung Claude Neal's body from a strong oak. A newspaper reporter counted 50 gunshot wounds. Souvenir seekers cut off his fingers and toes and skinned his body with knives.
Of course, they have the gall to "educate" us about the so called Gujarat riots. Which of course, pales into comparison with what Congress and it's goons unleashed on Sikhs in 1984 pogrom.

This is all brushed under the carpet. Hindus are to be blamed for everything, eh?


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