Despite #historicalrevisionism (that's a polite way of saying lies), #public #symbolic #lynching holds a distinct and honored role in establishing the conditions necessary to the independence of these former British colonies.
Colonists enraged by repeated abuses conducting #lynches in #effigy of #Crown officials, often accompanied by "funerals for Liberty" in which, having been carried in a coffin to a prominent town location, seemingly deceased, Lady Liberty would rouse from her nightshade slumber.
While #lynching as a tool of #racist #murder and #oppression should be studied and understood by all that love liberty, the #noose deployed by those that invented the USA was a #libertysign, not a #murderweapon.
Some, of course, say that the message is confusing to the modern mind. The point of history, however, is that it be remembered, not forgotten, and that its great swells be studied and understood.
Making the #noose a #verboten, prohibitable #emblem of hate is crassly wrong.
Making the #noose a #verboten, prohibitable #emblem of hate is crassly wrong.
The #hangmansnoose warns against #tyrannical impulses in government officials. It always has, in this country, despite subsequent innovations.
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