Legal way of Crusifiction, Forms of Lynching

    In this blog I will discuss the a specific passage from a text Southern Horrors and Other Writings, of Ida B. Wells edited by Jacqueline Jones royster, a pamphlet of "Lynch Law in All its Phases" with critical thinking strategies. According to Ida B. Wells, an African American Journalist, editer and a publisher, born in 1862, during slavery, Afro-Americans were the property of whites and after the Civil War in an attempt to gain their self-sufficiency, were  demoralized through a process of lynching. Lynching was used by white southerners/supremacists in a legal form of  affliction, Degration, decapitation, and demoralization to remind the Afro-Americans that this is a white man's land and if they rebelled against them, Africans will be executed. Whites used law, political power and mob strength by accusing them of raping their precious women and executing them. The true cause can be explained and understood in a quote from a specific passage in "Lynch Law in All its Phases" as follows. "The utterances of the leading white men show that with them it is not the crime but the class", (Wells, p58). In other words, with the whites it was honor they valued more than the seriousness of the actual crime committed against them.  To maintain their role and status as the the true owners of the country, white supremacists used the false accusations of African Americans of raping their respectable women.
    Two disturbing incidents occured involving white men and Afro-Americans girls in Nashville, Tennesse, stated  in a passage from "Lynch law in all its Phases", introduced by Ida b. Wells, edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster. In the first case which is brief but important, a white man assaulted a a little girl whose physical injuries caused by the man ruined her life. Ironically, "He was jailed for six months, discharged and is now a detective in that city". This shows how corrupt the south government was at that time and was still run only by the whites who shared same mentality towards Afro-American race. In the other case, tables were turned as the African Americans became the Lynchers and white the victim. In the same city a white man was also arrested and released on a bail at the trial for outraging a an Afro-American girl in a drug store. An ironic reaction occured by a race known to be lynched reversed the idea from being the victims of lynching to being outrageously executioners for taking the law in their hands and assassins. For the protection of the white, State Militia was placed in from of his house. "Two hundred and fifty white Americans armed themselves with Winchesters and guarded him. A canon was placed in front of his home". When it came to defending themselves and their honor as white supremacists, whites joined together for the same cause that was to keep the African American race suppressed. We have never seen or heard of such a case where so much protection was given to a criminal in the history of mankind.