In history, the horrific event of lynching in the early 1900s happened so often and carelessly that this cruel punishment became the norm in that time. Keeping African-Americans as slaves was normal, until its end in 1863, but blacks were discriminated against even after that point in time. Lynching involved putting a person to death or forcing them to experience an inexplicable amount of pain, yet it was still popular, particularly in the South. In the article “The Press and Lynchings of African Americans” written by Richard M. Perloff, the poem “Strange Fruit” written by Abel Meeropol, and the anonymous TIME image of the Statue of Liberty, the harsh reality of lynching that many individuals could back then not understand was portrayed and
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In the article “The Press and Lynchings of African Americans” written by RIchard M. Perloff, the cause of lynching and the negative manner in which the media dealt with it at the time is thoroughly explained. Lynching thousands of African American caused this process to then become the norm, …show more content…
Even with the media describing the gut-wrenching horror of lynching, it was still a common punishment in various areas. The torture by which they put people through is horrific, and it is even worse that the people almost took pleasure in doing something as inhumane as this. In the poem “Strange Fruit” written by Abel Meeropol and performed by Billie Holiday, the painful act of lynching is described, revealing the bitter end those who were lynched had to face. Having already caused a person to meet a grim death through hanging, their body is then left “for the crows to pluck, for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, for the sun to rot, [and] for the trees to drop” (9-11). After the individual has met with their rather unfortunate death, the body is just left to be dealt with by nature. It is left hanging and it is not until an animal or act of nature acts upon it that it is truly dealt with. Even then, it is dealt with in a harsh manner, which is cruel because if one was killed because of something they cannot control, they should at
In the article “The Press and Lynchings of African Americans” written by RIchard M. Perloff, the cause of lynching and the negative manner in which the media dealt with it at the time is thoroughly explained. Lynching thousands of African American caused this process to then become the norm, …show more content…
Even with the media describing the gut-wrenching horror of lynching, it was still a common punishment in various areas. The torture by which they put people through is horrific, and it is even worse that the people almost took pleasure in doing something as inhumane as this. In the poem “Strange Fruit” written by Abel Meeropol and performed by Billie Holiday, the painful act of lynching is described, revealing the bitter end those who were lynched had to face. Having already caused a person to meet a grim death through hanging, their body is then left “for the crows to pluck, for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, for the sun to rot, [and] for the trees to drop” (9-11). After the individual has met with their rather unfortunate death, the body is just left to be dealt with by nature. It is left hanging and it is not until an animal or act of nature acts upon it that it is truly dealt with. Even then, it is dealt with in a harsh manner, which is cruel because if one was killed because of something they cannot control, they should at