Sunday, October 16, 2011
Lynch Law in All Its Phases
This blog is basically dedicated to those innocent souls that lost their lives through lynching. This was one of the darkest period in American history when African Americans were being killed with little or no reason and without the interference from the government whatsoever. This case that I am going to mention is about this African American who was murdered in front of thousands of whites supermacist. His biggest and only mistake of his life that he fell in love with a white woman openly. This excerpt was taken from the book The Southern Horrors and Other Writings and this book was written by a very popular personality Ida B. Wells and it was edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster. It was a barbarous act toward both the African American and the white woman. it was a very brutal barbarous savaged act. As Well said in her text, "an African American was burned alive protesting his innocence" (wells, 57). Edward Coy was his name and he was accused of raping a white woman whom he had sexual relationship with. The white woman also was open to being sexually active with Coy. However she was threatened by superior white men and she had to cooperate with them. Eventually she filed a complaint against him of raping which gave the whites a reason to lynch the African American. It was love that led to lynch and in the end it was her who lit the match when Edward Coy was burned alive even though she was against it. In my opinion she played a great part in his death and might not be in love with him because if she truly loved him she would go against any odd.
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Adnan, I have a phase of how the Lynch law was created but not all of them. I can understand that the term came from Coy, the African-american man who was lynched after having a sexual relationship with a white woman. Other than that, everything else is vague and unconstructive language. I suggest when you are writing your blog, expect people outside of your class or even the school to read it. There, your blog would be a bit more elaborative. You can start by explaining as you were about how the Lynch Law came about but with proper citation and sentence structure. None of your sentences start off capitalized. Apply critical thinking to Lynch's law after you've explained what it is and you'd have a more precise blog. Personally, I think it'll be easy for you because it's interesting that you know what's happening. You just need a little more time and you got it.
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