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Diversity and Education Versus Fascism
The latest episode of the Ms. Magazine podcast On the Issues with Michele Goodwin addresses Juneteenth and is mostly an interview with Ann Grundy, who grew up in Birmingham.
Regarding the current book bans and Black history bans, Ann Grundy pointed out: Children ask questions, like why did this happen?
She brings up: What kind of person murders Black people by lynching them… and even brings a picnic basket to the lynching? White people treated lynchings like entertainment. After the lynching, some cut off pieces of the victim’s body, such as a finger, and put it in a jar and sold it in a shop. You might be out shopping and looking in shop windows… and see jars containing body parts of lynched people. What kind of person wants a souvenir of a lynching?
White supremacists like Wrong DuhPsycho don’t want kids to know about such things. Kids ask questions they don’t want to answer.
I knew some of that history — but I don’t remember previously reading or hearing about the selling of body parts as souvenirs. The word that kept popping into my…