On this day in 1942, a white mob in Sikeston, Missouri, tortured and lynched a Black man named Cleo Wright in the heart of the Black community. An estimated 100 Black residents fled soon after. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…
@eji_org This is why mental health is so important. The trauma that these people went through and their children and their grandchildren. What businesses and homes did these people just up and leave behind that would have been generational wealth instead of generational trauma. 😔
@eji_org Thank heavens there is no law yet that Twitter cannot post material that will make white people (aka Mitch McConnell Americans) uncomfortable.
@eji_org @matthewjdowd Oh but we don’t want to hurt the feelings of the families of the lynch mob !🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
@eji_org When drive thru these isolated rural farm towns, I always wonder what people went through. This was none stop domestic terrorism. And the next town they fled to, they same thing continued. There was no break from this.