By Ron Lowe Santa Monica
CNN aired a program called “The Noose” which followed the history of the noose and lynchings in the South. The program began with the recent hanging of a noose on a tree at Jena High School, Ga., and the ensuing controversy. The program showed the grizzly lynchings of blacks in the ’20s and ’30s. The photographs graphically depicted hangings and the white crowds standing around enjoying the spectacle. Among the crowds were children being indoctrinated to be the next generation of racists. That’s the way it works; children learn racism from their parents, they don’t teach it in school.
Skip to today and we have the anti-immigration movement and the persecution and targeting of brown-skinned Hispanics, Mexicans and Latinos. Viewing newspaper and TV pictures of anti-immigration protests we see that it is another “white thing.” There are no blacks, Hispanics or Asians in attendance. If this isn’t racism what is?
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 9, 2007. Read the original PDF.