@rielydionne shared the image below.

There are many pigeons bc they were used to carry messages during world war 2 and then set free. Perhaps we should be thanking them instead of cursing them.

#birds #animals

and prominent citizens, gathered to witness victims being gruesomely tortured and mutilated. White newspapers advertised these carnival-like events; vendors sold food, photographers printed postcards, and victims’ clothing and body parts were given out as souvenirs.

Source: https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-public-spectacle-lynchings/

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More than 4000 African Americans were killed in racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950. Many of these extrajudicial murders were celebratory public spectacles, where thousands of white people, including elected officials

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