The Omaha guide., 1947-09-27
Lynching Is
Murder
Continued from Sept. Goth.

State Of Georgia are not ready to ap-
prehend white men who lynch Negroes.
They are not ready to stop lynching.
Any mob, anywhere in the South,
know in advance that il can lynch a
Negro and that in nine hundred and
ninety nine times out Of a thousand,
nothing will be done about it. 1t is a
racial matter based on color. If Jews,
Germans, Danes or any other nation
atty we're lynched, something would
be done about it-immediately.
There are millions in America who
would not participate is the iynching
Of 4 Negro but VITO would not lift a
finger to create an en- that
would make the lynehin5 Of a Negro
possible. There Ire perhaps. millions
ia America who would not be ono
of mob to testify against a lynchinr
if they knew the l~yncher by name.
1t all means that there are million
of people in America Of whom it can
be said they condoae lynching. In thu
sense, many Of US, good people
educated people, and congressman are
part of the mob.
The twenty men who Iynched four
helpless Negroes last July will never
live in peace with themsel ies again.
As long as they breathe air, their con-
sciences will prick them. 1t will !iaunt
them day and night. Every Negro they
see from last July up to the very NOM
ent they close their eyes in death
will serve to remind them that one day
I'VE lynched four Negroes" Every
time they pick up a newspaper or q
magazine and see the word Negro, it
| will serve to remind them what they
| had done. Everytime they close their
, eyes and in their dreams they will
J see and hear the screaming voices Of
| the four Negroes pleading for mercy.
They will see the bodies Of the lynch
| ed-black, innocent, helpless, dangl.
ing. They will never be at peace with
| themselves again. 1t will even effect
their children as they will have to
suffer deep-seated prejudice against
Negroes, of atone in their souls for
the sins Of their fathers, or bear for
ever the thoughts that their fathers
lynched Negroes. 1t is a terrible load
to carry around.
The public seems to have the opin-
Jon that lynching is caused by sex or
racial intregity.' 1t is a very con-
venient publicity material for leaders
Of the American Lynchings, but sex
attachment is intact one of the small
est causes among ever the alleged
causes of this barbarious forms Of re-
preston. Lynching has always been
the means Of protection, not Of The
white women, but of profits.
Is there a way out? Some Of the
leaders of Interacial Commission are
Ministers and there are a few courage
eous-ministers and Bishops who have
taken an active stand against lynching.
Unfortunately they are too rare.
Lynching-means-rule by rope cnd
faggot (faggot is a bundle of sticAs)
instead of by orderly and civil lied
processess-has far too long been a
curse to American and an %affront 10
d~ecency and humanity.
, | hope all who reads this poem by
isabelle M. Taylor" will give it a
thought
The Lynching
The moon lights the Wooded
death spot,
To the shame OF the uide
spreading tree,
The ieaves icail in rustIins
protest,
Their whispered hrcnody.
! 4 cloud Usils the moon into
darkness,
The state shine less br ..hantlY.
And me polce Of IT,: dying black
Cries, "Hast Thou, TOO, torsoken
me-?
See how the battered body JAs
In a heap when they cut it
down-
See how the red, red. blood hons
From the bLQcd Ul1n nm tbe