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There once was a woman who protested the death of her husband, who was killed by barbarians that wrongfully accused him of a murder he did not commit. At 8 months pregnant, the woman found the courage to speak out in a hostile environment whose inhabitants operated under the premise of a false construct. Their allegiance to this false construct caused them to believe, behave and act out in the most inhuman way, void of empathy, operating out of primal fear in the most aggrandized way for self-preservation.

When the woman protested her husband’s death, the same mob that took her husband’s life came for her, causing her to flee. She evaded their pursuits for some time, only to be captured days later.

Once found, still pregnant, the mob dragged her out of the house, strung her up by her ankles and stripped her bare. They proceeded to pour gasoline on her, but not before they slit her belly open with a knife used to split hogs. Her unborn child fell out, allegedly let out ‘two feeble cries’ before its head was crushed by a member of the mob who stomped on it. Next, they lit her body on fire all to teach her a lesson, because she had used her voice to counter inhuman behavior, only to make the mistake that she believed she was a human being.

Her name was Mary Turner, and she was lynched in Georgia in 1918 by an angry white mob.

Just as animals gassed infants in the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, animals bashed in the heads of an infant on the ground while its mother was being set ablaze. Low vibrating individuals that pledge allegiance to the false and delusional construct of White Supremacy still exist. 

The estimated number of lynchings of blacks in the South from the period of 1882-1968 is recorded as 3,446. True numbers will never be known (with respect to lynching) and if there’s any indication that this is how Whites viewed Melanin pigmentation, then it’s safe to say  that the actual number dwarfs the estimated number of lynchings on record. 

I say this all to say that I will begin to respect more and more of the +3K whose lives were lost by the hands of barbarians known as the KKK. I will also respect the hundreds of thousands more, dare I say millions, specifically of my ancestry in the context of America, that perished under this false construct.

I respect them, as should you.

I will continue to understand my culture in this country and beyond as there is much more to learn. I’m aware that my excitement to understand more will be met with resistance and cries of ‘reverse racism’ (which I laugh at) or feelings of being 'threatened', but it’s no longer my problem. Humanity is ready to shift towards empathy and one thing is for certain, we don’t need White Supremacy. So yes, the fears of White Supremacists are warranted. Their time is numbered, but to those that protest against it, understand that this false construct is passed down and can morph into different forms and thought patterns which can lead to behaviors and actions. Be agile, just like it.

It’s important for my community to begin to respect those that have fallen under this horrible, delusional behavior, recognizing that it was only allowed to exist to show us what happens when human beings operate in the lowest forms of human behavior – and that empathy is the only way.

I’m optimistic that White Supremacy’s flagrant behaviors are on the precipice of extinction, however if a caged animal is threatened, it will do whatever it takes to survive even towards the very end. While my current country implodes still ignorant of its own reasons as to how and why a reality television star is running the country (coining bigotry and racism as cultural anxiety a la The Atlantic) I will continue to build my community and do I what I need to do to build the life I want.