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The Duluth Lynchings on June 15,1920
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Figure 4.1 The Duluth Lynchings
I just want to know how a picture like this, even got started , what someone said look over here and they took the picture. I mean what is this. Wow
It’s very unsettling that during the Presidential elections, candidates completely ignored the numerous lynchings that white mobs executed in the South, and did not support bills that would criminalize these white mobs for their actions. These white men were proud of their actions, as evidenced by the smile on their faces.
I’ve seen this photo before. The grinning white men serve as a reminder that lynching wasn’t a serious matter to them. Oftentimes, lynching was celebrated like the 4th of July. With picnics, cookouts, & children celebrating
This photo is terrifying, for lack of a better word. The way everyone in the white mob is peering into the camera with evil grins on their faces shows a lack of any humanity or basic empathy. They seem to be more concerned with the flashing camera than the human beings that they just killed in front of them.
The Duluth lynchings are deeply disturbing and reveal a complete breakdown of justice. Three Black circus workers were brutally killed by a white mob after being falsely accused of assault, without credible evidence or any form of due process. What stands out most is how public and open the violence was, as if the mob felt no fear of consequences. It shows how easily rumors and racial fear can escalate into deadly violence when the legal system fails to protect Black lives.
This is disgusting. I cannot believe the white people all huddled around like it was a show to be watched and not lives that were lost.
This image is so grotesque to me, all of these white men so so unfazed by the dead men that they surround, who were killed by their own doing.
If you dim your eyes, paired with the obscene lighting, it almost looks like there are no faces. People with nothing inside them, empty. This is a freak show out of a horror movie.
The men posing by those bodies weren’t trying to hide what they’d done; they were announcing it, almost advertising it, because they knew the legal system would never touch them. That’s what makes the image so chilling: not only the brutality of the lynching itself, but the absolute confidence of the crowd that this was acceptable, even worth celebrating.
This was mere entertainment for whites, especially white men, as indicated by the picture; they seem more fazed by the flash of the camera than by the people hanging on a rope. They’re all smiling as if they have achieved some incredible feat. As if they were standing next to a popular monument and taking a photo. Absurd.
This picture is hard to look at. It pissees me tf off seeing the guy smile, and even thinking that the white people would do these heinous acts and pose for a picture.
Such a hard photo to look at,but it’s the reality.
Disgusting that they’re smiling for the photo.
Was slavery even banned?
This image is doubtlessly abhorrent. Remember that these onlookers thought this was okay based on the systems which had enabled it to occur in the first place.
Soulless
It’s hard for me to understand the societal standards that make this okay, especially as it was barely over a century ago. There was no emotion for what they had just done, as they stood there and posed for the camera next to lynched humans.
The social normalization of committing such disgusting crimes against other human beings is literally unimaginable. They truly had no remorse or belief of equality and it is so painfully clear.
Smiling for a picture after murdering someone is beyond psychotic. It shows not only a lack of remorse but also the fact that they took enjoyment in the crime.
I can’t even begin to understand how someone could smile for the camera after having just murdered someone
It is deeply unsettling how the crowd here, just like others before and after, saw lynchings akin to an event to watch. The brutalization of Black bodies- made to be fodder for the crowd to toy with and enjoy- it is unsettling.
The normalization of Black deaths during this time is clear. It’s mind blowing to think that many descendants of the White people involved are still present, with some likely holding onto similar mindsets.
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