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- jellyfishsmack
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- video added May 07, 2007
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A great piece of work...& a good effort to interview the towns people for their viewpoints on this travesty of justice. It would have been helpful to know what had provoked the hanging in the first place to reveal the mindset of that day. Maybe then we could gauge a change if any, in the human pysche.
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A very telling story about America''s intentional amnesia.
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This story was very well put together. No history should be forgotten or told inaccurately, especially by the perpetraters or decendants thereof.
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- augustrayne
- 1 year ago
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Extremely disturbing, but not surprising that this occurred there. I recently visited nearby Alachua and the first thing I noticed was the same separation of race by railroad tracks. Great job on this pod.
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- eclipsedave
- 1 year ago
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Should the memorial be built? Who should fund it?
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Why are we still having race-relations issues to this day? In light of the Jena, LA controversy, what are your views on racism and why it still pervades our society?
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It's easy for those of us who live within culturally integrated social circles to forget that racism is very much alive and well all over the place.
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- Justin_Gunn
- 1 year ago
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I think a memorial should be built. It's a part of history, and something we should never forget.
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Just as the Jews, who suffered at the hands of hitler WILL NOT let you or anyone else forget their holocaust, we should remind EVERYONE of ours...we MUST remember these attrocities or we are doomed to repeat them....
THAT, my enlightened friends, is why racism is still alive and well...everyone wants to forget the way Africans were originally brought to this country...they want to forget that America's original/first economy was built and sustained with African blood and sweat! We MUST not let them forget...we MUST remind them AND ourselves of the attrocities the American government (AND constitution) perpetrated against Africans who were brought here against our will!
When the American Government allows for reparations to Africans (not just money doled out or welfare, but true FEDERALLY FUNDED social reforms instead of jail, disenfranchizement and thus economic discrimination) is when we will start to make progress towards wiping racism from our slate of problems. The bandaid is not working...it's oooozing blood still. We need to treat the disease - - not the symptoms!
In my humble opinion.
An African American<<<<<<<<<<<<<,
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- as_soon_as_possible
- 1 year ago
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