George Zimmerman's victory lap over Trayvon Martin’s grave [View all]
BY LEONARD PITTS, JR.
... Sam Hose ... was .. lynched by a mob .. in 1899 ... They stabbed him, castrated him, skinned his face, mutilated him, burned him alive ...
You could buy a small fragment of his bones for a quarter. A piece of his liver .. would set you back a dime. The great African-American scholar, W.E.B. DuBois, reported .. Hose’s knuckles.. for sale in a grocer’s window ...
Sam Hose was not unique. People claimed hundreds, thousands, of trophies from the murders of African Americans. They kept bones. They kept sexual organs. They kept photographs of themselves, posed with mutilated corpses ... So perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised to see it happen with Trayvon ...
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