Strange Fruit: An Overview Of Lynching In America Analysis

Written by Tameka Hobbs, “Strange Fruit: An Overview of Lynching in America” goes into very explicit detail regarding the inhumane, callous, and deplorable treatment that black people faced and encountered during most of the 1800s and the first half of the 1900s. The main topic which is discussed in the chilling article is the act of lynching, which are basically punishments that are created by a community of people who decide to act independently from the court of law’s general judicial proceedings. At first, lynching was not widely used nor was it considered as a first resort for punishment during the beginning of the slavery era. Even though the slaves were disciplined in a harsh manner, causing death was not the main goal since those same slaves were highly valued for their labor in the plantations, but as time went on, the practice of lynching swiftly became an …show more content…
Even though the segregation laws promised to have services and facilities be “separate but equal” (which was anything but), blacks in general were still at a disadvantage in almost all areas of daily life and I find it appalling that blacks were denied the same economic, educational, political, and career opportunities only because their skin was a darker tone than their white counterparts. People should not be judged for their outward appearance but rather for their character and moral standards but it is a shame that America at the time was so adamant on oppressing the black man from becoming successful in life only because of the color of their skin. The racial profiling and discrimination should not have lasted this long and the African-American community should not have had to suffer by the hands of white America at all. This was a tremendously dark period in time for blacks in America, and it is a period that we are all still trying to recover from to this very