South Carolina Ping
Posted on 06/09/2005 5:30:13 PM PDT by satchmodog9
When she entered kindergarten, Doria Johnson was well aware of the 1916 lynching of her great-great grandfather in South Carolina--a story so painful that relatives rarely discussed it, let alone share it publicly.
Johnson, 44, of Evanston, broke that silence after learning details of Anthony Crawford's death. A wealthy black cotton farmer, Crawford was beaten, hanged and shot more than 200 times by white villagers in Abbeville after a dispute with a white merchant.
Having spent 15 years tracking down relatives, researching public records and lecturing on his slaying, Johnson feels appreciative as she travels to Washington this weekend to watch history take a different course.
On Monday, the U.S. Senate is expected to approve a resolution apologizing for its refusal to pass anti-lynching legislation after the end of slavery.
Johnson will sit with descendants of other lynching victims, including a cousin of Emmett Till, 14, of Chicago, who was slain in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.
"Although it's late, yes, and although it's symbolic, it's necessary," Johnson said. "We've been here the whole time. Now we're getting attention."
After visiting the scene of the lynching in 1990, Johnson was moved to tell Crawford's story for history's sake and to record the damage done to her ancestors, most of whom fled South Carolina out of fear.
Few relatives have been willing to return to Abbeville, in the northwest part of the state near Georgia, where Crawford owned a large plantation and raised 13 children.
Johnson--who is working with New York director Carol Devoe on a documentary about her family--understands their reluctance.
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"When she entered kindergarten, Doria Johnson was well aware of the 1916 lynching of her great-great grandfather in South Carolina--a story so painful that relatives rarely discussed it..."
I hate bad writing like this. If her relatives rarely discussed it, how was a kindergartener well aware of it?
Sean Hannity had a caller today, she said that during her preganacy she'd been inundated, overwhelmed by appeals to store her baby's umbilical cord blood. Then she bemoaned that no one knew about this!
These people make my hair hurt.
Beg pardon, wasn't that illegal at the time *already*? This is an endorsement for the idea that Uncle Sammo has to create some special law for every thing that can go wrong. Then we wonder why we get things like a petty thief charged with 10 different crimes for the same act.
Can these people get over it? I don't think so. It still sells.
FYI
The national dembo party has owed them an apology for generations. It was their party who started the KKK and the red shirts. According to a documentary I saw on PBS the red shirts was started to kill both blacks and white Republicans.
Yes, it certainly is. It always is! Its certainly more important than it was 10 years ago, it is even more important than it was 20 years ago and really, really more important than it was 40 years ago!
My credit card is maxed out and I need some cash.......
Pretty darn good memory if you ask me! I can only remember my great grandfather and thats by name only......
I should add that the apology might have been brought about because of the court case brought against the national dembo party in Dec 04. It was brought because of generations of racism by the national dembo party against African Americans.
That same Senate that is going to "apologize" is busy everyday trying to figure out ways to tax us more, and impinge more on our liberty.
The apology pisses me off on so many levels. All the people who are mentioned in this past event are dead. There were laws against murder in 1916 so the senate did not need to have a special lynch law. Do not apologize for me because I refuse to acknowledge it. The senate is speaking on behalf of the American people because that is what they do. I was not hear nor was even one of my ancestors. Do not speak of apologies to anyone unless you are the one perpetrating the event.
I suggest we all write letters to our senators decrying our outrage on this issue. I will write my two pinko's even though I know I will be pissing in the wind.
She is a serial liar like all the rest of these race hustlers. She was brought up to hate white people. I thought only white people could be bigots.
You are assuming a lot about a woman you do not know based on one story.
Did she say that or is that what the reporter wrote?
You tell me. She is the one claiming to see lynch mobs following her. Drama seems to get her point across to those she is aiming the story towards.
Sometimes reporters embellish stories and she's not quoted as saying that but if she did, that's amazing.
I agreee. I feel sorry for her. She needs a symbolic apology to move on in life.
Maybe once she gets her apology she can ask the Democrat leadership why there is an ex-Klansman on the floor of the senate. I would love to hear Byrd apologize for the things he probably did.
He's never apologised in any meaningful way. He's just like Jane Fonda. Excuses.
My ancestors from Ireland settled in Abbeville in 1760, but they didn't stick around either, went on to Kentucky. Maybe it was Indians that drove them away. Where's my revenge and apology?
And as for the apologies to white victims who have been killed or maimed by blacks, it's in the mail.
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"blacks are charged with lynching at 4 1/2 times the rate for whites" in present day S.C.
These Senators are so self-absorbed and worried about their image and the PC left that they have forgotten what their job under the constitution is IMHO.
This burns my ass so badly I cannot see straight.
I found a moron on the thread as well.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1422265/posts?page=54#54
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