Iconic Photos

I remember years ago when I was 13. I asked my father about the one photo (Lawrence Beitler- Lynching) of the black men who were hanged and the whites who seemed to relish in their deaths standing around, I asked "why they hate us". He said, "they lost themselves in hate".

http://swick.co.uk/index.php/2009/06/12-of-the-most-iconic-photographs-ever-taken

 

One young man who was almost lynched wrote a book about it.

 

yeaaaaah it definitely hurts to look back at old photos

dudes would just stand around proud that they killed a black person..it really drove home this idea that they considered us to be 'less than a man' and more on par with animals

i've tried to understand...i really fucking did.....the hatred just doesn't make any damn sense at all