University of Alabama Professor Clarence Caisson In some White peoples’ minds, there was also a civic necessity for these bloody public murders, which was outlined by University of Alabama Professor Clarence Caisson [listen to his words]: “This conviction that the Black man must now and then be intimidated in order to keep him from forgetting the bounds which southern traditions have set for him.” Even now, in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Georgia, back in these rural areas and in the north as well, Black people still are intimidated, and they keep within the bounds that White people have set for them. We are 150 years up from slavery, but fear still grips a lot of our people. So unquestioned is this philosophy of intimidation that at times, lynching’s are planned and carried out, not under the fierce compulsion of mob hysteria, but by men who have calmly resigned themselves to the performance of a painful—but delightful—duty which they deemed as necessary for the good of society. One Arkansas sheriff said that innocent Blacks were “hung, sort of on general principles.” The sheriff said that “We kill five or six of them every year, and that makes the others behave tolerably well.” ~The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 05:58:01 +0000
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