"Lynching was racial terrorism," he said.
Hattie leaves the racial terrorism of Georgia in 1923 for a new life in Philadelphia.
"This was an act of racial terrorism and must be treated as such," Brooks said in an emotional press conference of his own.
"Our willingness to romanticise this period necessitates that we deal too with the racial terrorism and violence at this time," says Bryan Stevenson of the EJI.Georgia saw more such murders (586) than any other state, followed by Mississippi.
Some critics argued that black Americans were too traumatized by a familial history of racial terrorism to watch the show, but, I would add, a lot of Americans, of all races, are emotionally distressed by the country's current backward slide.
Trotter found himself caught between the First Amendment ideals that allowed him to publish his newspaper, the Guardian, and fighting against the distribution of Griffith's film and, by extension, the racial terrorism that it facilitated.
She said: "The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the U.S. remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent".
Slavery and post-emancipation racial terrorism may be part of our story, but it is not the whole story.
