Estivel Garcia
After the Civil War and during the Reconstruction period, a time of modernism, violence and the rise of white supremacy increased drastically against the Negro population, it took place principally in south and across the country starting from 1860s to 1968. Lynching was a modern way of killing black people practiced by the white man and justifying their actions by giving convenient and fallacious excuses. According to Zizek‘s term, subjective and symbolic violence was clearly performed by white supremacy against the colored men and women. Despite the Civil War ended and all slaves were freed during the emancipation proclamation in 1863, southern white men blame Black people for economic loss, social privilege and for being responsible for the war. White man had a fear that African American could gain more political power in the society.
After the Civil War and during the Reconstruction period, a time of modernism, violence and the rise of white supremacy increased drastically against the Negro population, it took place principally in south and across the country starting from 1860s to 1968. Lynching was a modern way of killing black people practiced by the white man and justifying their actions by giving convenient and fallacious excuses. According to Zizek‘s term, subjective and symbolic violence was clearly performed by white supremacy against the colored men and women. Despite the Civil War ended and all slaves were freed during the emancipation proclamation in 1863, southern white men blame Black people for economic loss, social privilege and for being responsible for the war. White man had a fear that African American could gain more political power in the society.
Even the slaves were granted with freedom and a flash of hope and opportunity; it was not enough to ensure a protection against discrimination, oppression, corruption and violence against them. The granting of civil rights created anxieties among white citizens. Lynching were the white man solution to terrorized African American by killing them, and spreading a message of who superiority. The federal government didn’t put their hands over this abuse; they also were participated in complicity with the lynchings as systemic violence. White men justified their excuses by saying that Blacks would rape their wives, negro domination in political term, and it was a necessity of the white man to repress and stamp out alleged race riots in the civilized world.
Some of the pictures of lynching that we saw on class show how all white citizens including children participated in the event of killing African Americans as a response of supremacy. Wealthy people, middle and working class people enjoyed murdering Negroes in front of everyone, by hanging them up in the street lamp or burning them down and laughing as being something pleasurable and normal.
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