Collecting The Dirt

Collecting The Dirt

Rev. William Barber spoke about this project at the Unity Rally. Apparently the Klan had threatened to show up to the march, but other than some rednecks rolling by in muscle cars and pickup trucks, blipping throttles, nothing happened.

I would not have predicted this slide back into Jim Crow and segregation in my lifetime, but I can't argue that it hasn't happened.

"...my eyes were drawn to tables along the wall topped with dozens of empty glass jars. Some of the perfectly polished containers were emblazoned with names, others just bore the word “Unknown.” In smaller print on the gallon jars were the names of towns strewn across the state and dates ranging from the 1880s to 1947. Each jar was one life snuffed out in racial terror."

"Our task was to collect soil from the sites of each lynching."

"Lined along shelves on the back wall behind us were rows of dozens of jars, already filled, and empty rows, waiting to hold our jars, with barely enough room for the 367 African Americans who lost their lives in Alabama alone. This is just the beginning of what will become the Memorial for Peace and Justice, an EJI-sponsored museum marking the lynching deaths of those victims of our nation’s narrative of racial difference. Four thousand souls were killed in 12 southern states alone."

Would that this was only ancient history...
http://www.scalawagmagazine.org/articles/who-will-speak-for-alabamas-ghosts

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