That book sounds very interesting. It's impossible to get truth about the American South unless you grew up from people who came from people who came from people and there's some connection to events. I come from people, and I grew up traveling from where we lived amongst my father's Scots-Irish people in Texas to where my mother's Scots-Irish people mixed with Native American Southerners lived in Florida. Every summer we'd travel through the deep South and it was always an opportunity for my mother to get some history lessons into us. I could see with my own eyes that we were a defeated people driving through the haunts of other defeated people. I walked through so many Antebellum plantation homes, and one thing was clear to me: these were not the homes of 'my people.' My people never lived in anything like those homes. So whose homes were these?
I've not read any books of the late professor Tony Martin, but some of his excellent lectures on the slave trade can be found on YouTube. His dissertation was on Marcus Garvey. E. Michael Jones has a section on Garvey in his book, The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. Fascinating. But it's Jones' chapter on the Leo Frank that is most instructive about overall attitudes of common people in the American South. Wiki characterizes Frank as a man 'wrongly convicted' and 'most modern historians agree.' This is not true. It's just another example that Reconstruction was not a 12-year failed project, but one that continues to this day. It's not called Reconstruction now, but woke, BLM, toppling statues, year zero.
Fortunately, we weren't all defeated. Some of us who come from people...know that we are not racists, we never were. We were not slave-owners. We never were. They can vilify and memory-hole, and raise celluloid shrines to Leo Frank, and paint the South with a big white sheet and rope, but it is not true. Between the 1870s and the 1950s, there were some 4000 Black Americans lynched. What is seldom noted is that during that same period, about 1300 White Americans were lynched. Lynching is what people did when they took justice into their own hands.
If you don't know the story of Leo Frank, you certainly won't get it on Wiki. He was a Texas-born, New York-raised and educated engineer, a Jewish man, who returned to the South to be the director at the National Pencil Company. He was elected president of the Atlanta chapter of the B'nai B'rith in 1912. In 1913, he was convicted of the rape and murder of a 13-year-old white employee, Mary Phagan. As part of his defense, he blamed the black janitor, Jim Conley. E. Michael Jones covers this story so well and what we are shown is that there was neither anti-Semitism nor anti-Black racism as prevailing sentiments during this trial. The jury simply felt that they had convicted the right perpetrator. This went up the appeals ladder all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court which upheld the verdict. Under political pressure, Georgia's governor commuted the death sentence to life in prison. At this point, a well-orchestrated vigilante 'committee' took over: nearly 30 men with electrician skills and telephone skills, drivers, an ambulance man. A group of men with the skills to break into the prison and extract Leo Frank. Why? Because they were rabid anti-Semites? Yes, according to the mainstream Northern press. WHY? Because natural people don't stand by when a 13-year-old girl is raped and murdered. Had the rapist and murderer been the Black Jim Conley and had there been a miscarriage of the justice meted out by judge and jury, I suspect he'd have suffered lynching too. But his story would be forgotten in the annals of his-story, perhaps dredged up during an orchestrated BLM event, but no movies would have been made about Jim Conley. Leo Frank? Including the silent film era, three movies, two television miniseries, two Broadway musicals, and a documentary.
I was supposed to internalize my defeat as a young child driving through the impoverished South, touring the fancy homes that 'whites like me' lived in way back when, but I come from people who come from people who come from people.
Inscribed on Mary Phagan's gravestone:
"Sleep, little girl; sleep in your humble grave but if the angels are good to you in the realms beyond the troubled sunset and the clouded stars, they will let you know that many an aching heart in Georgia beats for you, and many a tear, from eyes unused to weep, has paid you a tribute too sacred for words".
That book sounds very interesting. It's impossible to get truth about the American South unless you grew up from people who came from people who came from people and there's some connection to events. I come from people, and I grew up traveling from where we lived amongst my father's Scots-Irish people in Texas to where my mother's Scots-Irish people mixed with Native American Southerners lived in Florida. Every summer we'd travel through the deep South and it was always an opportunity for my mother to get some history lessons into us. I could see with my own eyes that we were a defeated people driving through the haunts of other defeated people. I walked through so many Antebellum plantation homes, and one thing was clear to me: these were not the homes of 'my people.' My people never lived in anything like those homes. So whose homes were these?
I've not read any books of the late professor Tony Martin, but some of his excellent lectures on the slave trade can be found on YouTube. His dissertation was on Marcus Garvey. E. Michael Jones has a section on Garvey in his book, The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. Fascinating. But it's Jones' chapter on the Leo Frank that is most instructive about overall attitudes of common people in the American South. Wiki characterizes Frank as a man 'wrongly convicted' and 'most modern historians agree.' This is not true. It's just another example that Reconstruction was not a 12-year failed project, but one that continues to this day. It's not called Reconstruction now, but woke, BLM, toppling statues, year zero.
Fortunately, we weren't all defeated. Some of us who come from people...know that we are not racists, we never were. We were not slave-owners. We never were. They can vilify and memory-hole, and raise celluloid shrines to Leo Frank, and paint the South with a big white sheet and rope, but it is not true. Between the 1870s and the 1950s, there were some 4000 Black Americans lynched. What is seldom noted is that during that same period, about 1300 White Americans were lynched. Lynching is what people did when they took justice into their own hands.
If you don't know the story of Leo Frank, you certainly won't get it on Wiki. He was a Texas-born, New York-raised and educated engineer, a Jewish man, who returned to the South to be the director at the National Pencil Company. He was elected president of the Atlanta chapter of the B'nai B'rith in 1912. In 1913, he was convicted of the rape and murder of a 13-year-old white employee, Mary Phagan. As part of his defense, he blamed the black janitor, Jim Conley. E. Michael Jones covers this story so well and what we are shown is that there was neither anti-Semitism nor anti-Black racism as prevailing sentiments during this trial. The jury simply felt that they had convicted the right perpetrator. This went up the appeals ladder all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court which upheld the verdict. Under political pressure, Georgia's governor commuted the death sentence to life in prison. At this point, a well-orchestrated vigilante 'committee' took over: nearly 30 men with electrician skills and telephone skills, drivers, an ambulance man. A group of men with the skills to break into the prison and extract Leo Frank. Why? Because they were rabid anti-Semites? Yes, according to the mainstream Northern press. WHY? Because natural people don't stand by when a 13-year-old girl is raped and murdered. Had the rapist and murderer been the Black Jim Conley and had there been a miscarriage of the justice meted out by judge and jury, I suspect he'd have suffered lynching too. But his story would be forgotten in the annals of his-story, perhaps dredged up during an orchestrated BLM event, but no movies would have been made about Jim Conley. Leo Frank? Including the silent film era, three movies, two television miniseries, two Broadway musicals, and a documentary.
I was supposed to internalize my defeat as a young child driving through the impoverished South, touring the fancy homes that 'whites like me' lived in way back when, but I come from people who come from people who come from people.
Inscribed on Mary Phagan's gravestone:
"Sleep, little girl; sleep in your humble grave but if the angels are good to you in the realms beyond the troubled sunset and the clouded stars, they will let you know that many an aching heart in Georgia beats for you, and many a tear, from eyes unused to weep, has paid you a tribute too sacred for words".