Black Ancestors : STRANGE FRUIT:IN HONOR OF OUR ANCESTORS LYNCHED IN AMERIKKKA...

Wisdom7 · Aug 18, 2005

Thanks Isaiah for this forum. It's strange that I came across it at this time. Months ago, I tuned into a documentary on "Slavery in New York" in which a black man was put on a CROSS and his body was slowly roasted. Although this man had commited no iniquity, he was LED TO THE SLAUGHTER LIKE A LAMB. these are the TRUE ONES WHO DIED FOR OUR SINS SO THAT WE MAY HAVE LIFE. I say this because recently, I watched Passions of the Christ.

I had no interest in wanting to watch it, but I was curious as to what someone saw in it, to die of a heart attack. Then my cousins told me it was so deep and they were full of despair blah blah blah. So I watched it over my sisters house. It took me 3 times (sorry it was boring) to get through it. When they came to the part where Jesus was getting beaten, I thought SO WHAT!! He only endured 3 days and my people endured a life time. Then he was CRUCIFIED which was normal back in that period, and there were two thieves next to him. If this mortal MAN was dying for our sins, how come he didn't perform a miracle and have those thieves just slide on off the cross so that THEY COULD LIVE too! (Who knows, they might of let them go, but I probably snoozed durning that part too)

It amazes me how when we talk to our people about the crimes against our people, they say, that was then, this is now and to forget it. But they make a weekly ritual to be up in the church screamin, crying, rollin down the aisles, foamin at the mouth in rememberance of this man who died and they still waitin for him to come and save them. We have been truly posessed by a foul spirit and idol worship is at an all time high!! Because that's all it is. We were NEVER supposed to create an image (they created it-we accepted it) of God and worship it or we would be led astray and our enemies would be able to control us. I'm so tired of every time, something goes good for a black person they say "Ooooh it ain't nothin but the blood of Jesus"! I'd love to go into a church and grieve my ancestors on a weekly and pay tribute to them and the blood they lost, so that I may have life!

Isaiah · Oct 3, 2005

Wisdom7 said:

Thanks Isaiah for this forum. It's strange that I came across it at this time. Months ago, I tuned into a documentary on "Slavery in New York" in which a black man was put on a CROSS and his body was slowly roasted. Although this man had commited no iniquity, he was LED TO THE SLAUGHTER LIKE A LAMB. these are the TRUE ONES WHO DIED FOR OUR SINS SO THAT WE MAY HAVE LIFE. I say this because recently, I watched Passions of the Christ.

I had no interest in wanting to watch it, but I was curious as to what someone saw in it, to die of a heart attack. Then my cousins told me it was so deep and they were full of despair blah blah blah. So I watched it over my sisters house. It took me 3 times (sorry it was boring) to get through it. When they came to the part where Jesus was getting beaten, I thought SO WHAT!! He only endured 3 days and my people endured a life time. Then he was CRUCIFIED which was normal back in that period, and there were two thieves next to him. If this mortal MAN was dying for our sins, how come he didn't perform a miracle and have those thieves just slide on off the cross so that THEY COULD LIVE too! (Who knows, they might of let them go, but I probably snoozed durning that part too)

It amazes me how when we talk to our people about the crimes against our people, they say, that was then, this is now and to forget it. But they make a weekly ritual to be up in the church screamin, crying, rollin down the aisles, foamin at the mouth in rememberance of this man who died and they still waitin for him to come and save them. We have been truly posessed by a foul spirit and idol worship is at an all time high!! Because that's all it is. We were NEVER supposed to create an image (they created it-we accepted it) of God and worship it or we would be led astray and our enemies would be able to control us. I'm so tired of every time, something goes good for a black person they say "Ooooh it ain't nothin but the blood of Jesus"! I'd love to go into a church and grieve my ancestors on a weekly and pay tribute to them and the blood they lost, so that I may have life!

Thank you, Much, sister Wisdom7 - though I prefer to thank Our Ancestors for enduring that we might live on to continue their struggle... I am glad you've received something of value from this thread...

Peace!
Isaiah

Isaiah · Oct 3, 2005

Kat said:

Does Isaah still come to this site? I am from Valdosta GA and know about the lynching of Mary Turner. It happened in 1918. Five or six males were tied to a fence and shot by a white mob. One of these was Hayes Turner. His wife Mary was pregnant. She began to threaten to try to do something about the lynching. SHe was tied upside down in a tree and set on fire. Her belly was cut open and the baby fell to the ground - reported to be alive. A man in the crowd crushed the baby's skull with his boot.

It is hard to believe that this happened here.

Kat

Yes, Sister Kat, I'm still lurking around here, and I happy that you are here with us, now, too! It's been a while since you posted this, but if you can share with us somme of what you know of this, we would be all the more informed, and capable of rendering due honor to this corageous African woman, who came to the defense of her husband, and was viciously murdered...

You know, one of the horrific residual effects of these lynchings is that our people were forbidden to give the deceased a proper going home ceremony and burial... Often we were forced to leave the area completely and pernamently for fear that other family members would be murdered in cold blood... We know how difficult it is to have to uproot ourselves, andleave the "comforts" of home in this day and age... Imagine what it must've been like back then, with no money and no family to turn to at times... Whenever we ponder White Folks and their diabolical acts against our ancestors, we need to do a complete meditation of the ENTIRE experience of our ancestors from start to finish... Then it will dawn on us just how terrilbe life must have been life for us in that era...

Peace!
Isaiah

cherryblossom · Jul 18, 2010

Michael Donald (July 24, 1961 – March 20, 1981) was picked at random as the victim of a lynching by two Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, Alabama, United States in 1981.

...In 1981, a black man who was charged with the murder of a white policeman, stood trial in Mobile, Alabama. When his trial took place, the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Upset Ku Klux Klan members believed that some black members of the jury had affected this outcome and at a meeting after the trial, Bennie Hays, the second-highest ranking official in the Alabama Klan said: "If a black man can get away with killing a white man, we ought to be able to get away with killing a black man."

On Saturday March, 21, 1981, Bennie Hays' son, Henry Hays, and James Knowles, decided they would get revenge for the failure of the courts to convict the African American for killing a policeman.

Traveling around Mobile in their car, they soon found Michael Donald walking home. Donald had nothing to do with the murder of the police officer and was in no way involved in the trial. He was just a an innocent man that the Ku Klux Klan chose randomly to exact revenge for the acquittal of the other man during the trial. When the pair spotted Michael Donald, they forced him into their car, drove to the next county and lynched him.

An investigation resulted in the local police finding that Donald had been murdered over a drug deal gone bad. However, Beulah Mae Donald knew her son was not involved in drugs and resolved to obtain justice. Soon, Jessie Jackson and the FBI were involved and it did not take long before FBI agent, James Bodman was able to obtain a confession from James Knowles.

In June 1983, Knowles was found guilty of violating Donald's civil rights and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Six months later, when Henry Hays was tried for murder, Knowles appeared as chief prosecution witness. Hays was found guilty and sentenced to death.

But Beaulah Mae Donald was not yet done with her determination to obtain justice. She soon filed a civil suit against the United Klans of America. In February, 1987, an all-white jury found the Klan responsible for the lynching of Michael Donald and ordered it to pay 7 million dollars. This resulted in the Klan having to hand over all its assets including its national headquarters in Tuscaloosa.

After a long-drawn out legal struggle, Henry Hayes was executed on June 6, 1997. It was the first time a white man had been executed for a crime against an African American since 1913....

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-lynching11.html

LIKE TREES, WALKING(based on Michael Donald)
A novel by Ravi Howard
http://www.ravihoward.com/

*I read this book 2 years ago and was very moved by it.*