University of Rhode Island Lynching Exhibit - part 1 of 3

[98bigbutt]

I even heard stories that when there was a USO show during WWII,the German POW'S were allowed to sit up front while the American black soldiers were allowed to sit behind the German POW'S.

[Gulfporter]

She mentions the property in California suggesting that numerous black people were lynched there. In fact, only two black people were lynched in California, and 41 white people were lynched in California. LIkewise Nebraska, 5 blacks and 52 whites. It's rarely mentioned because it's simply not as compelling, that vigilante justice preceded modern policing, and that the vast majority of people who were "lynched" were actually executed for crimes. Most of the more famous photos are of executions.

[ademics]

r u telling me ya'll used to murder ur own ppl, 2? Ur CA & NE #s are irrelevant. U only have a CA & NE because whites genocided indigenous ppl but I guess we don't have all the #'s on that, huh? The stats we have on lynching represent ONLY those reported. White ppl have engaged in routine violent repression & elimination of black and indigenous populations. The modern police state STILL lynches my ppl or do you mean the 'vigilante justice' like we saw in Haiti 1804?!

[Gulfporter]

@ademics

1- The numbers are from the Tuskegee Inst, if you haven't seen them, then you clearly have done no study.

2 - genocided is not a word

3 - Neither the whites nor the indians were a singular culture, genocide did not occur. The word was coined to describe the Holocaust, which was quite different from the conquest of the Americas by various nations.

4 - The Cherokee were allied with the Confederacy.

5 - The stats we have on lynching are what we have, guesses don't count.

[ademics]

@Gulfporter

1- Both Tuskegee and the NAACP will tell you themselves that the #s on lynching are INCOMPLETE and mere conservative calculations based on available data. They KNEW there were more!

2- "genocided" IS a word because I just made it a word which is the way that language has functioned throughout human history. "blog", "nigger", & "cracker" weren't words either until we created them. There is something called Sociolinguistics; you should check it out.

[Gulfporter]

@ademics

It's a leap from "KNEW there were more!" to any old stuff you want to make up, especially if said stuff is the idea that something happened exponentially more often than ANYONE has recorded it. It's called stacking figures. It's a favorite of advertising executives and weak academics who say things like "as many as...." way too often.

I've read Gonzales-Day and it's weak. That doesn't mean there weren't hate-crime lynchings. It simply means that it should be discussed with care.

[ademics]

What i'm telling u is STANDARD scholarship. Even WHITE historians provide this documentation. You have no understanding of the ways in which historiography or cultural anthropology work in it's most banal instantiation.

What I'm giving u comes from mere intro courses on the topic!

Why are u telling me that you've read Gonzales-Day? So what? Your point is? I'm not talking about some Gonzales-Day!

[ademics]

3- Who cares if they were a singular culture or a population constructed of a billion divergent ethnicities... so what! That's not the point. They were all exploited, raped, & murdered en masse by European supremacist. There were multiple African and 1st nation peoples holocausts prior to the Jewish holocaust. In fact Germany FIRST perfected this technique in southwest Africa in the early 20th cent. before deploying it again in WW2. This also calls attention to the Armenian genocide!

[Gulfporter]

@ademics

First you make up words, and now you are essentially saying that definitions don't matter either. You are wandering all over the place and frankly I don't have the patience for that. Clearly, if it doesn't fit your narrative or Oppression Hierarchy mentality, then it's not going to penetrate anyway. Have a nice night.

[ademics]

I am in no possession of an "oppression hierarchy mentality". I spit truth and truth is fire and fire is a refiner as it burns away the impurities of the lies which have held my people down for all these many centuries.

Let's not get this twisted... You came to MY video and started posting sh*t, I didn't come to your sh*t! So don't tell me you ain't got the patience as if I came bothering you!

[ademics]

4- So-called allying with the Confederacy right or wrong is a complicated and conflicting strategic tactic of war and self-preservation when white supremacist have raped ur wives, feed ur babies to animals and enslaved ur brothers.

5- For documentation purposes in order to launch a viable national campaign again lynching they gathered what stats were available but IT WAS COMMON KNOWLEDGE in the blk comm that there were many more. -(See my response at #1)

[Gulfporter]

@ademics

"r u telling me ya'll used to murder ur own ppl, 2?"

I don't generally think of thieves, rapists, and murderers to be "my people". Do you?

[ademics]

What thieves, rapist & murderers are u referring too? Do u mean the white rapist who violated my African foremothers for 500 yrs? Du mean the white thieves who stole my ppl from Africa & this land & enslaved them? Do u mean the white murders of my ancestors for 500 yrs? Do u mean them?

Everybody knew the bullshit lie about black men raping white women as a justification for lynching!

U need to bring some real scholarship or i'm blocking u. i don't tolerate faux scholarship.

[dolordeleter]

I know that there were a lot of bad white people who did terrible things, that turn our stomaches, but NOT ALL whites were bad, and NOT ALL whites endorsed/endorse this behavior. Some whites were killed for educating slaves, or doing other favors for black people. Remember during the civil rights, many whites risked their lives along with black people.

[ademics]

To clarify, I don't want you to think that I place blame on "ALL" white people. My intention is to address the larger system of white supremacy which was constructed and is maintained by mostly white people. So this is not about white people BUT white supremacy.

As long as you find ways to abnegate your white privilege and undermine the system of white supremacy, just like some whites did during the civil rights movement then you are choosing to become part of the solution and not the problem.

[ademics]

No, I actually leave up ALL the comments except for the ones that have no other intellectual aim than to offend. Not only do I leave them all up BUT I typically respond to them as well.

[ademics]

what?

[usqueersdotcom]

I'm amazed at your calm, reasoned answers to the blatantly proud racists commenting here. I still lose my cool when similarly attacked by the Neo-Christian Nationalists and christohet supremacists so common in the U.S.A. I call it "Queer Rage" and have a felony record because of it. Stupid, I know. I try to work it out by being constructive yet it never seems to lessen. Thanks for your educational vids. I'm here today due to Bill O'Reilly's "lynching party" comments directed toward Mrs. Obama.

[ademics]

Thank you for the kind and encouraging words. I do take them to heart. When you deal with the likes of some of the characters that post here I realize that they talk out out of fear. Fear of difference. They are in bondage and I'd like to help them get free. You stay strong because we live in trying times. Peace to you.

[bygbaby]

Thx for posting this. I used the videos on my blog in context to the Tiger Woods/ golf channel story.

[ademics]

No problem brother. I'm pleased that you found them useful. Peace and liberation to you.

[Bob2000system]

It is great that there is museum to the distribution of justice known as lynching.

Why don't they talk about the horrible crimes committed by those that deserved to be lynched? They were always lynched for horrible crimes.

America used to not tolerate these crimes.

[ademics]

First of all... Lynchings were legally unwarranted, thus preventing them from being labelled as a form of "justice". Secondly, the so-called "horrible crimes" committed by lynch victims were overwhelmingly exaggerated. Lastly, America has long tolerated the most heinnous of crimes against its own population.

[Please conduct appropriate historical research around this topic before commenting any further]

[Bob2000system]

The crimes of those lynched are not mentioned in the video. Without acknowledging the crimes how can they be considered "exaggerated"? Democratic capital punishment or "lynching" was necessary in remote areas. In larger towns it was used for heinous crimes that shocked and outraged the community. The majority of the community obviously supported democratic justice. People of different times should not be judged by present standards.

[ademics]

1. The intent of my videos is not to posthumously place on trial those we see depicted hanging from trees and such like. A close historical examination of the topic should reveal to you that the victims had often: A. never received a trail wherewith to determine their innocence or guilt B. been found innocent and lynched anyway or C. merely accused of some "crime"

[ademics]

2. My intent is to deal with the immoral, illegal, and white-supremacist aspect of American lynching NOT what may or may not have taken place in small tribalistic areas of America.

[ademics]

3. In fact, the majority of the various communities did not support it save the fact that they were prevented via their own fear of the lynch mobs of stopping it. As I have stated elsewhere what is important is the inhuman, immoral and uncivilized nature of lynching as it represents the worst rather than the best of what America had to offer. Please refer to my previous post for comments on democracy.

[ademics]

4. There are certain virtues and moralities which remain essentially timeless. No matter what era from which we start you will always find those dissenting voices which all too often were marginalized in the face of power structures.

[ademics]

I'm not sure if its the same openly racist person using different scrnames commenting on these 3 lynching vids that I've uploaded OR if a bunch of openly racist people that attend the same KKK support group or what?? But they are all using the SAME blatantly ignorant and easily refutable arguements and assertions.

[ademics]

Whether you are all the same or different what is clear is that NONE of you READ! You don't read proper books or my responses to your derisory comments. Thus, I won't REaddress philly1963's comment as it has been responded to in my other post either here or at one of the other 2 videos in this series. So philly1963 and all others interested feel free to read.

[guyNbluejeans]

I maintain that no race of people got a better deal than today's black Americans. Look at how your race has brought nothing to the table of life in terms of inventions and scientific discovery, and yet you take for granted all the many wonderful things Caucasians share with you in this regard, including computers!

You're a bunch of spoiled ingrates!

[ademics]

I am not concerned with what you "maintain". I deal in realm of historical fact and plausibility. The historical facts tell us that Blacks brought the first universities, advanced mathmatics, classic literature and poetry, advanced medical practices and medicines, advanced political theory, advanced social theory not only into Europe over a thousand yrs ago but here to the U.S.

[ademics]

Norbert Rillieux (a Blk man) invented a sugar refining process 150 yrs ago which is STILL used today! Another Blk man, Lewis Latimer (not Thomas Edison) invented the carbon filament for light bulbs! Those gas mask our soldiers used in world war I? That was Garrett Morgan and yes, he was Blk too! That traffic light you see cars stopping at? Again, Morgan invented the prototype for it! Tuskegee airmen with inferior equipment and training became the most successful pilots in U.S. military history!

[ademics]

I will clearly inform you this last time:

If you have something intelligent and unmeanspirited to post to my video please do so. But another comment such as "ingrates" and such like, I will bar you from ever commenting here again. -Peace-

[1dann2]

Im not from america, but its obvious y there is so much conflict... ur all racist, whether ur white, black, mexican or watever, learn to relise that every race has something to offer, u americans problem is u all think ur better then someone else...

[ademics]

1dann2, where are u from? ur statement "ur all racist" is profoundly uninformed & demonstrates ur ignorance of the diverse historical, racial, socio-economic, & socio-political scene in america. americans don't all think alike nor do we all live alike. There are many americans who actively place themselves in solidarity with other peoples outside america. Thus, in the future you may want to be slightly more specific when refering to "americans" as a homogeneous socio-political national entity.

[ademics]

Please know that not all americans are racist. whatsmore, many americans organize to actively campaign against racism and oppression both in america and abroad. America is in no more conflict than that which takes place around the globe.

[1dann2]

I can tell your a very educated women and i apolagise if i affended you as this is your video, just from my point of view there is alot of racism coming from all sides, i mean the comment that guy wrote was disraceful i just hope you dont judge all white people on that guys words cause if you do it makes you more racist then him

Peace

By the way im white-Australian

[ademics]

1dann2, apology accepted. My mission is to educate to emancipate. I know that Austrailia has their own sordid history with regard to race supremacy, example: The Stolen generation! and "Rabbit-Proof Fence" is my favorite movie.

Peace to you

[guyNbluejeans]

ademics, if life is so tough for blacks in America, then why don't blacks take it out on their parents, as it wasn't as if Caucasians put a gun to their heads, right?

Be honest, the best thing that ever happened to you was that your grandma was brought here in chains.

Slavery was ugly and wrong as hell, but that was then and this is now. Get over it.

[ademics]

1. guyNbluejeans, actually Blks have a strong tradition of loving and caring for our parents. The problems Blks face in Amerikkka have nothing to do with our parents.

[ademics]

2. My revered grandmother was born here and she's never been chained in her life. One of the best things to happen to me was the day I learned Moors(Africans) invaded Western Europe and taught them literacy, mathematics, and poetry; and then built the first universities there. Yeah, I know, they don't teach that in the schools these days.

[ademics]

3. Thanks for the advice but I will allow no one to tell me when and how often I am permitted to recall the towering atrocity and valiant resistance to it that defined my people.

[guyNbluejeans]

Also, blacks are making way more babies than Caucasians and those babies are being conditioned by the nearly all-powerful liberal media machine in this country to hate Caucasians. Look at all the zillionaire famous blacks in the US, how many have ever stood in front of a TV camera and stated how fortunate they are to live here and enjoy white inventions and standard of living? Spoiled!

[ademics]

Ok.. Another comment like this one and I'm going to require that you begin citing your sources. If you have none I can provide them for you. "Blks are making way more babies than Caucasians", what! The infant mortality rate for Blks has always been higher than for whts so I guess we ain't making enough babies. We have minds of our own and are not controlled my some mythological "all-powerful liberal media".

[ademics]

Not sure what ur definition of "liberal" is but perhaps the only truth here is that the media is damn-near all powerful but hardly liberal.

The aggregate wealth of the Blk population is miniscule when juxtaposed to that of whts.

"white inventions"? huh? please tell me

[ademics]

Blks can stand in front of the camera and voice their gratitude only after whts get in front of the camera and repent for engaging in genocidal violence towards my indigenous people living here and for raping my grandmothers whom they brought here in chains.

[guyNbluejeans]

Ultimately, ademics, you're no more of an athority on the issue than I am with respect to the lynchings that happened decades ago. However, as far as the "white power str" holding you back, that was true 30+ yrs ago. These days corporations bend over backwards to get qualified blacks. Regarding bl on wh: every day Caucasians are beaten up and treated like shit by blacks in this country, it's hardly a secret.

[ademics]

A couple of things here... You don't know me or anything about me thus you have no clue about what I am an authority on.

I'm not sure where you acquired the erroneous figure "30+ yrs ago". The white supremacist capitalist patriarchal imperialistic classist homophobic power structure in the U.S. was firmly set in place by 1619 and though challenged continually has remained steadily resistant to any attempts at egalitarian reform.

[ademics]

additionally... Corporations do not now, nor have they ever bent over backwards to hire Blks. To the extent that they do it is at the behest of governmental policies enacted under pressure from those marginalized.

I am still unsure why you feel that there is some systematic assault on wht people by blk people. Blk people are merely 12% of the US population, how could they and why would they be attacking caucasians everyday?

[guyNbluejeans]

She fails to mention that Caucasians were also lynched and that the people that were lynched were scumbag rapists and the like and had it coming.

We have an epidemic of black on white crime because we've gone too far down the liberal road. We need to bring lynching (of evil people) to come back as a common practice in order to straighten the current (liberal) mess out.

[ademics]

Thank u for the comment. Pls view the next two parts.

Whts were lynched in small numbers by comparison to Blks but the institution was established as a form of domestic terrorism to disproportionately murder Blks.

The rape of wht women was used as an excuse to lynch Blks. Most of the "rapist" were lynched extra judicially.

I'm not sure what u mean by "epidemic of blk on wht crime" or its connections to a perditious "liberal road".

[ademics]

Part II

At no point in time in the nation's history have Blk people ever systematically, corporally, or institutionally committed crimes against whts. The wht power structure has violently suppressed any attempts by Blks to acquire their social, religious, economic, political, and physical freedoms.

As far as ur concerns about the "liberal mess" being straitened out by a re-institution of lynching address the liberal power structure for that one.

[ademics]

Part III

If u have specific questions I'd be pleased to answer them. As for general questions on U.S. history as it pertains to lynching I encourage u to read; I can recommend proper literature.

[autum1515]

how does showing lynching trees represent "underrepresented communitites"? explain that one cause obviously im missing something. so i'll ask again..why not display the "testiment" to the black on white hate crime just to add a little balance to the scheme of things?

[ademics]

It was from those trees that the underrepresented were lynched. The victims died but the trees still live and in a metaphysical sense preserve the voices of the deceased. As for your second query please refer to my previous statement.

[autum1515]

why not display the "testiment" to the black on white hate crimes?

[ademics]

My mission is to represent underrepresented communities. There are others who do better than I in representing mostly white communities.

[1ONYX]

Dame some wht ppl r SO EVIL.

Then ppl wonder y The Nation of Islam Calls wht ppl the DEVIL.

[ademics]

thanks for the comment.

sadly your words r true.

we ALL must continue the struggle to liberate exploited ppls the world over.

peace

[Bob2000system]

Is your comment to mean this is a racist anti-white exhibit??

[ademics]

No.

[autum1515]

correction..they do not call white people the devil. they call all westerners that do not believe in allah the devil and this would probably include you.

[ademics]

Not all global members in the muslim world refer to the west or whites as devils. Just as not all Christians call Black people niggers. When we in the west hear/see what appears to be anti-western sentiment through politically edited media we should keep in mind that the grievances some harbor have not to do with you nor I but political and economic policies that negatively impacting their communities. Its more complicated and takes digging into to get at the real issues.

[1ONYX]

That is an asinine comment!!! All wht come from Europe,there ideas r the same where ever they r.

[ademics]

Hi 1onyx... granted your comment is a full two month old but i'm not sure which comment you are declaring to by "asinine". If me I can clarify; if someone else perhaps they will.

Peace

[Video4Ridicule]

White People stereotyped against Black Americans in the 1950s, now you are continuing the cycling by stereotyping against all white people. Damn humans never learn from history. They just repeat history is a vicious cycle of self destruction.

[1ONYX]

#1 whts have been dehumanizing all non-whts since they came out of Europe. whts r the 1's who invented race classification. As far as blk ppl for 600 years of whts dehumanization.

[Video4Ridicule]

Egyptians invented race classification against Gentiles in 2000BC and slavery of Israeli people for 40 years, in fact if you go back to cavemen era, cavemen imprisoned other tribemen from other villages. So racism is a human problem, not a white problem. If you say its a white-only problem, then you are racist. So you are repeating the cycle. Its human nature.

[1ONYX]

Egypt had race classification. They knew every 1 is human. White race classification viewed themselves the better race & all others sub-human. The Gentiles

were the same race as the Egyptians (black) Its was their faith that made them diffrent from the Egyptians. Cavemen are white ppl from Europe. Slavery is a humane problem but whites did'nt know that.

[ademics]

1. Perhaps I should be place things in a little tighter historical context. Once we start going all the way back to Egyptians it can get mildly sketchy. What I'm addressing in these lynching videos covers a period from the ending of the American Civil War until almost present date.

[ademics]

2. We should also keep in mind that ancient Egyptian dynamics around race are entirely different than ones used in the last 500 yrs. This is to take nothing away from a conversation dealing with a comparative analysis. But ancient Egyptian race politics offer no excuse for existing institutional white supremacist dynamics.

[ademics]

3. Lastly, my aim here is to deal with modern racism NOT the Egyptians (who were Black people!)

[ademics]

sorry for the two month old reply but is this in reference to me(producer of these videos) or 1onyx?

[1ONYX]

Nah Bro, I like this vid. Keep doing your thing. Keep exposing the terrorism of the white American people. Let people know that America has fonded its self on terrorism of non-whites.

[ademics]

Thank you widely... I will do