Hundreds Gather for Reconciliation Service for South Carolina Lynching

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBTKNVU2BE.html

ABBEVILLE, S.C. (AP) - Eugene Crawford's grandfather was killed by a mob after arguing with a white man over the price of cotton in 1916.

It was a crime that was barely spoken of, but pain and fear stayed with older family members. After all, more was taken from the family than Anthony Crawford, a wealthy black farmer.

Two whites were appointed executors of Crawford's estate, which included 427 acres of prime cotton land. His children inherited the farm, but the rest of the property and his cotton went to the white man with whom he had had a disagreement.

"It makes me angry," Eugene Crawford, 81, of Philadelphia, said at a reconciliation service held by white church leaders Tuesday as an effort to atone for the lynching. "But I'm glad we're coming together a little bit."

[WearyOne]

1. these atrocities should never be forgotten

[entanglement]

2. kick n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

3. For you African American reparations foes...

Ya think the Crawford family should not have their property returned to them?

Reconciliation...yes, but I think reparations are due to that family.

Flame on, I am ready!

[NNN0LHI]

4. I think their property should be returned to them plus interest n/t

[Mairead]

5. I have no patience at all with people who can't or won't see why redress

is necessary for obvious crimes like this.

[fortyfeetunder]

6. The anti-reparations folks are clueless when it comes to this.

What happened to this family was not the exception, it was the rulein post Civil War America. It wasn't just slavery it was atrocities like, this, Rosewood, Tulsa that disenfranchised and depleted honest hardworking Black families from their livelihood.

Aren't these events evidence why reparations should have been given to Blacks, at the very least, in these situations?


I am not going to let this thread die yet.

:kick: for Wednesday.

[Tomee450]

8. Of course reparations are due.

Blacks all over this country can tell of similar incidents in their family. But of course, some people will never believe that African Americans should receive reparations for anything but it's acceptable to give reparations to others who are not black.

[shanti]

7. hell yes, they should!

you'll find no quarrel here.