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　Racial Violence in the United States.

Today I attended the lecture presentation brought by history club. It was entitled 窶弩hy did ordinary people lynch? Racial violence in the United States.窶� The lecturer is from Texas. His experience in hometown is deeply related to his career and research. He could see the all kinds of violence in central Texas, he said.

One picture that enlightened him was presented at the beginning of the lecture. It was the picture of public lynching of one person. 15 thousand people including doctors or lawyers or women were watching it. However, here is a serious question; why and how did they think it acceptable? It was a lynching. But nobody tried to stop it.

According to his view, 窶徂istorical memories窶� are deeply related to the racial violence. Revolution could be a memory, or war between the United States and Mexico could be too. It has local contexts either. All these elements correlate each other, then, it causes the violence. In addition, it passed from generation to generation with a particular interpretation.

He concluded his presentation with the following words; race still divides America. Race works as a barrier of the society. Lynching is still important memory for African Americans, but at the same time, historical memories are also important for the white.

Although the lecture was so difficult for me, his last words were impressive. In his words, lynching is a 窶忻icious racial hate crime.窶� One scene that came up to my mind; a suspicious thief was shot and killed by white police officers. He was black. It could be considered racial violence. If a suspicious was a white, there is a strong possibility that he wasn窶冲 killed in the first place. I think the chances to see this situation is decreasing, but it still exists in this society. It seems me that his lecture implies that the racial violence is a difficulty and potential problem in this society.

投稿者: Hiroki@Coe 日時: 2005年01月14日 22:30 |

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