Ep 53: Caught on camera.. no punishment

On this episode of #IDKMYDE B Daht talks about a white mob lynching a black man before trial, and despite being photographed, no one was tried for the crime.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either.
I want to know if you white people traced back
y'all's history. I didn't know you didn't. I didn't know.
Maybe you didn't. I didn't know you didn't. I didn't know.
I didn't know. I didn't know. Man, white people were
so vicious in the late eighteen hundreds. Read a story

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about a dude named Frank Embry. July twenty second, eighteen
ninety nine, a white mob abducted the nineteen year old
Frank Embry from some officers that was transporting him to
stay in trial, and they lynched them in front of
a crowd of a thousand white folks. Yep, happened in Fayette, Missouri.
He'd been arrested roughly a month prior and was accused
of assaulting a young white girl. Now he was scheduled

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to stay in trial on July twenty second, but then
white residents they grew a little too impatient, and they
decided to take justice into their own hands. According to accounts,
man they said the mob attacked the officers that were
transporting Embry, seized them and loaded them into a wagon,
then drove them to or they assaulted them, they immediately
started trying to get them to confess. They stripped them
naked and whipped them in front of the assembled crowd.

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But despite the vicious beating, he steadfastly refused ever assaulting
the white girl. After more than a hundred lashes, they said,
Embry just started screaming. He told the man listen, I'll confess,
but rather than plead for his life, he begged them
to stop the torture and kill him swiftly. Frank Embry,
standing there body covered in blood from the whipping, with

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no courtroom, no legal system in sight, offered a confession
to the waiting lynch mob and was immediately hanged from
a tree. If you google Frank Embry E M B
r EE, it's published photographs of the lynching, and they
clearly have the faces of many of the assailants right
there in the picture, even though no one was ever

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arrested or tried for the crime, which made me wonder.
I know, we as black people like to go back
in history and see how far we can trace our lineage,
but do white people do that? Do white people like
to search and see if their great great grandfathers were
racist slave owners? Or not. This is just another one
of those stories of how visceral and heinous white America

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was to black people in those enslaved periods, and I
didn't know. Maybe you didn't either,