@Sangfroid
Jessie Washington? Oh Gawd, that was horrific!
But wasn't his alleged crime clobbering his employer's wife to death with a hammer (with a charge for a non-existent rape tacked-on to make things more incendiary)...or was there another lynching like Washington's?
I heard of some incredible gruesome lynching cases. One involved a pregnant woman. It's even squickier than the Washington case.
I just can't understand how folks could be so blase about doing that to someone. True, there's the hate and dehumanizing factor but you'd think that the average person would find the brutal public mutilation & torching of a living being, even someone they hate, to be horrific to watch.
Even if the person killed was a clone Ted Bundy or Adolf Hitler, I wouldn't want to watch the whole mess, take photos and sell it as postcards!
Were folks in the Deep South all literally horror movie psychopaths?
Watching a simple hanging is bad enough (public hangings of convicted criminals being a regular, albeit icky thing) but to watch Mr. Washington go through all THAT....IN PUBLIC...and not be fazed....blows my mind!
Yes! Bring the kids and a nice lunch and watch a guy get brutally castrated, dismembered and burned to a husk! Fun for the whole family!
I assumed psychopathy and severe sadism was something that affected a minority of humans but to see a whole town watch something THAT gruesome and think it's the coolest thing ever is....incomprehensible!
RIP: Jessie Washington. May you be at peace in Paradise where you'll be free from suffering.
Here's what folks in Waco Texas were into on that day! Don't click if you have a weak stomach!....
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/Yucky%20Things%20and%20People/Jesse_zps96fe83a3.jpg
....This is a human body! They did this to this man...actually a 17 year old, learning-disabled teenage boy! In public...in THE CITY! Waco Texas, which at the time was assumed to be "modern & progressive"! These weren't inbred hicks, these were well-to-do city folk! AND THEY DID THIS TO A GUY!!!
Look at this little creep....
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....smiling in the background of one of these grisly photos! In from of this smirking boy is the charred remains of a guy!
....AND THESE FREAKS HAVE THE GALL TO CALL BLACKS "INHUMAN SAVAGES"!!! They took an illiterate, intellectually-impaired 17-year-old kid and did this to him!