Today in Labor History August 28, 1955: Teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered on this day in Money, Mississippi, for speaking "inappropriately" to a white woman. The brutality of the murder and the lack of justice for his family helped to mobilize opposition to segregation in America. An all-white jury acquitted Till’s killers, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam. The next year, both men publicly admitted in an interview with Look magazine that they had tortured and murdered the boy. The magazine paid them selling $4,000 (equivalent to $43,000 in 2022) for the story. Between 1876 and 1930, over 500 African Americans were lynched in Mississippi, alone, and over 3,000 across the South. A memorial marker for Emmett Till, erected in 2006, was defaced with "KKK", and then completely covered with black paint. 8 more markers were erected at sites associated with Till's lynching in 2007. Some of these were vandalized, too. One of the signs received over 100 bullet holes. In 2018, three University of Mississippi students were suspended from their fraternity after posting to Instagram a photo of them posing in front of the bullet-riddled marker, with guns.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #racism #lynching #Kkk #EmmettTill #mississippi #JimCrow #torture #BlackMastadon

“Killed for Being Muslim”: Family of Youth Killed by Mob in Rajasthan’s Alwar

Forest officials among those detained; investigation underway.

#rajasthan #alwar #rampur #lynching #CommunalViolence #HinduMobs #hindutva #muslims #india

https://theobserverpost.com/killed-for-being-muslim-family-of-youth-killed-by-mob-in-rajasthans-alwar-allege/

Neighbours Beat UP Muslim Couple To Death After Son Elopes With Hindu Girl

Police said a few years back Abbas's son had eloped with a girl from the neighbouring household.

#UttarPradesh #sitapur #CommunalViolence #InterfaithLove #HonourKilling #lynching #india

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/muslim-couple-beaten-to-death-over-sons-affair-with-hindu-girl-in-up-4312723

India’s Hindu-Muslim hate crimes are being tracked, by self-exiles Modi supporters wants silenced

From their bases in North America and Europe, Hindutva Watch’s members say they want to remedy India’s ‘clear vacuum’ of reporting on hate crimes. The multicultural group of social-media sleuths are now being targeted by Modi’s Hindu-nationalist BJP – as they warn India faces its ‘darkest days’.

#HindutvaWatch #BJP #CommunalViolence #CowLynchings #CowVigilantism #HateSpeech #lynching #SocialMedia #twitter #x #misinformation #islamophobia #journalism #activism #hindutva #HinduNationalism #india

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3230868/indias-hindu-muslim-hate-crimes-are-being-tracked-self-exiles-modi-supporters-wants-silenced

‘We walked straight into their trap’: As dust settles, fear and regret in Haryana’s Nuh

Observers say what happened in Nuh on Monday was a manifestation of Muslims losing faith in the institutions that are supposed to protect citizens.

#haryana #nuh #HaryanaViolence #sohna #gurugram #HinduMobs #VHP #BJP #BajrangDal #MonuManesar #BittuBajrangi #NasirJunaid #lynching #CowVigilantism #vandalism #hindutva #india

https://scroll.in/article/1053822/we-walked-straight-into-their-trap-as-dust-settles-fear-and-regret-in-haryanas-nuh

Muslim youth lynched to death in Assam’s Morigaon, survivor says familiar men among mob

On July 25, Saddam Hussain of Borbari Ahotpam village was lynched to death by a mob of Hindu residents of Ahotguri village in the Morigaon district of central Assam. Saddam along with five Muslim youths were returning from Naramari village, around 7 km away from their homes when they were attacked by the Hindu mob.

#assam #morigaon #ahotguri #lynching #muslims #HinduMobs #islamophobia #hindutva #CommunalViolence #india

https://maktoobmedia.com/features/muslim-youth-lynched-to-death-in-assams-morigaon-survivor-says-familiar-men-among-mob/

Bihar: Partially Disabled Bone Factory Worker Lynched on Suspicion of Cattle Theft

A Muslim man in Bihar was lynched by a mob of at least 70 who accused him of smuggling beef. Fifty-five-year-old Zahiruddin was a truck driver who worked for a bone byproduct manufacturing factory.

#bihar #CowVigilantism #CowLynching #lynching #beef #HinduMobs #hindutva #muslims #islamophobia #HumanRights #india

https://thewire.in/communalism/bihar-partially-disabled-bone-factory-worker-lynched-on-suspicion-of-cattle-theft

Muslim ambushed by cow vigilantes in India missing for two years

Rafiq Tamboli’s wife continues to search for answers two years after her truck driver husband was stopped by vigilantes in Maharashtra.

#maharashtra #mumbai #muslims #CowVigilantism #HinduMobs #RafiqTamboli #lynching #CowLynchings #hindutva #BJP #india

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/24/muslim-ambushed-by-cow-vigilantes-in-india-missing-for-two-years

"It doesn’t help that, as many commentators have pointed out, the Maury County Courthouse is the site of the 1927 #lynching of Henry Choate, a Black teenager who was murdered by a white mob after being falsely accused of raping a young white woman.

The song and video together essentially equate protesting #WhiteSupremacy with violent crime whilst simultaneously threatening said protestors with #violence if they ever do “try that in a small town"...

It’s so bad, in fact, that CMT pulled the video from rotation only four days after its release, which, in case you’re wondering, is extremely rare"...

But even aside from the biggest problem here—the #racist bullhorn aspect—it’s also just incredibly insulting to folks who live in small towns. It’s condescending. It’s infantilizing.

The vast majority of folks who live in small towns don’t feel threatened by those who are different from them. They don’t solve their problems with violence."

2/2

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-small-town-actually-means#details

@axios

#JasonAldean's 2-month old, racist vengeance anthem at the top of the charts is #MAGAmerica saying, "We've got your back! "

Wonder how that happened?

#Racism #Lynching #wtf

FIR reveals horrific killing of Manipur youth

The Kuki-Zo youth, who was arrested for sharing a post on CM Biren Singh, was being taken from court to jail on May 4, when a mob of around 800 men and women intercepted the police vehicle, dragged him out and beat him to death; NHRC records case as custodial death, issues notices.

#manipur #ManipurViolence #BirenSingh #ManipurPolice #meiteis #kukis #KukiZos #lynching #BJP #NHRC #ManipurUnrest #india

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/when-a-kuki-college-student-in-police-custody-was-beaten-to-death-by-mob-in-manipur/article67112812.ece

Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in Mississippi

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ap-joe-biden-black-ron-desantis-white-house-b2380299.html

#Biden #EmmettTill #NationalMonument #BlackTeen #Mississippi #Lynching #Politics #News

#Republicans Rush to Defend #JasonAldean for #Racist Song Filmed at #Lynching Site
https://newrepublic.com/post/174527/republicans-rush-defend-jason-aldean-racist-song-filmed-lynching-site

From 2022: How one #mixedrace #civilrights activist posed as a white man in order to investigate #lynching https://www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089640442/how-one-civil-rights-activist-posed-as-a-white-man-in-order-to-investigate-lynch #history #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #naacp #walterfwhite #antiracism #activism #freshair #podcast

As Lisa Respers France and AJ Willingham report, it's not just the ugly lyrics of Jason Aldean's slong that is an ode to vigilantism, racism, and "sundown towns": it's the fact that some of the scenes filmed in the video for ths song are at the courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee that was the site of a 1927 lynching of a Black man named Henry Choate and the backdrop for the Columbia Race Riot in 1946.

Idyllic small towns, indeed!

#JasonAldean #lynching #SmallTowns

https://abc7chicago.com/jason-aldean-try-that-in-a-small-town-cmt-controversial-song/13522976/

@DeborahForPlus @DemocracySpot Lynching Pence was exactly what the insurrectionists had in mind. (Yes, white people can be--and have been--lynched.)

The same sort also threatened Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, an election worker who was targeted by Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani. During her testimony before the January 6 Committee, she said people told her she should be glad it's 2020 and not 1920. https://tinyl.io/8zfr

#January6th #lynching #JasonAldean

Today in Writing History, July 19, 1875: Alice Dunbar Nelson, American poet and activist was born. She was a prominent part of the Harlem Renaissance. She published her first collection of short stories and poems, “Violets and Other Tales,” in 1895. In 1910s, she co-founded the Equal Suffrage Study Club and was a field organizer for the woman's suffrage movement. In the 1920s-1930s, she was very active in the movements for African Americans' and women's rights, campaigned for the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill and spoke in support of the Scottsboro defendants."

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #BlackLivesMater #racism #lynching #feminism #WomensRights #Poet #poetry #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

Today in Labor and Writing History July 16, 1862: Ida B Wells was born, Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was most famous for her nation-wide anti-lynching campaign, launched after the murder of three black businessmen in Memphis, Tennessee. Wells was born into slavery, in Mississippi, and spent her lifetime fighting racism and prejudice. She worked as a journalist, where she documented lynchings. She also founded the NAACP. Her autobiography, “Crusade for Justice,” was published posthumously in 1970.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IdaBWells #slavery #lynching #naacp #racism #mississippi #BlackLivesMatter #blm #BlackMastadon

Powerful Interview: Wise Intelligent - American System Designed To Create Hopelessness For Our People (247HH Exclusive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owjRFV84mUQ&ab_channel=247HH.COM

Official 247HH exclusive interview with Trenton, NJ based Hip Hop artist Wise Intelligent, Where you’ll hear about how the American system is made for people...
#exploitation #redlining #economicracism #slavery #fallout #lynching #urban #oppression #racism #justice #paradigm #deprivation #FHAforWhites #racistamnesia

Beef prejudice kills Muslim truck driver in Bihar, seven arrested for murder in Saran district

The deceased, identified as 55-year-old Muhammad Zahiruddin, was crossing Khori Pakar under Jalalpur police station in the district when his vehicle developed a snag.

#bihar #saran #CowLynchings #CowVigilantism #muslims #beef #lynching #islamophobia #hindutva #HinduMobs #CommunalViolence #india

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/beef-prejudice-kills-muslim-truck-driver-in-bihar-seven-arrested-for-murder-in-saran-district/cid/1948717