Any of y’all hip to the story of James Byrd Jr? I learned about his case when I was living in Oklahoma & it’s truly one of the most disturbing incident’s I’ve ever heard & it happened in 1998, not 1958.... only 21 years ago. Ponder on that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr.
Three white supremacists in Texas beat this man, pissed on him, chained him up to the back of their truck and drove for 3 miles down a gravel road. James stayed conscious through most of the dragging and only died when his arm & head was decapitated.... in 1998.
As if that wasn’t enough, the three human bed sores collected what was left of James’ body & placed it in front of a black church... in 1998. I feel like I need to reiterate that cause so many white ppl seem to think shit like this ended in the 1960s, I was 7 when this happened..
These mothafuckas dragged a man to a literal bloody pulp for nothing other than the color of his skin, laughed about it & went to a BBQ afterwards.... in 1998.
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