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Friday, January 21, 2011

Black Man Found Hanging From A Tree In Missisippi


I don't know how I missed this story!
On December 3rd of last year, Frederick Jermaine Carter,26 of Sunflower, Ms. was found hanging from a tree in the nearby all white neighborhood of North Greenwood, Ms. His death was originally ruled a suicide. But things aren't adding up!
Mr. Carter had a history of mental issues and would occasionally run away. But if he wanted to commit suicide, why would he go to an all white area of town to do it?
Why would he go through the hassle of finding a rope, tying it to a tree, putting it around his neck and pulling himself up high enough until his neck snapped?
Why not just grab one of the many guns his family owned and blow his brains out?
That sounds harsh, but it makes more sense. If you're going to do something like that, why go through the trouble of lynching yourself in an area you know nothing about?
His family is not buying!
The Mayor of Sunflower, Ms. is not buying it!
And neither am I!
I live in Alabama and can tell you for a fact, that "some" people in some of these small, back wood towns are stuck in this 1961 way of thinking. They still ride around with the Confederate flags tags on their trucks and still believes The South Will Rise Again!

I'll keep you posted on this one!

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