Black is the new president, bitch

UPDATE: Video available here.

Racism : America :: peanuts : the circus

This is a picture of the crowd of spectators who gathered to watch the lynching of Jesse Washington, a 17 year old African-American farmhand who was beaten, mutilated and burned to death in Waco, Texas, in 1916. It is also the front of a postcard. There are other, more gruesome photographic postcards of Washington’s lynching, including one of his body after it was doused with coal oil and burned (which I won’t post here). Here’s the back of it:

It reads: “This is the barbecue we had last night. My picture is to the left with a cross over it. Your son, Joe.”