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ReduxStock: Photo by Mary Turner/Panos Pictures/Redux of UK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in The New York Times, October 25, 2023.

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Immanuel Wilkins – Mary Turner – American Tradition

(link za pjesmu) Patnju i bol, užas i horor – kako to prenijeti u muziku bez riječi? Prije više od sto godina dogodio se za današnje prilike nezamisliv zločin. Na američkom jugu, mladu ženu, crnkinju, u poodmakloj trudnoći, je bezumna rulja brutalno mučila i objesila zato što je skrhana bolom protestvovala što je njen muž bez razloga obješen dan ranije. Saksofonista @immanuel.wilkins je sa svojim kvartetom uspio da uhvati trepataje konfuzije i straha, (bubanj i klavir stvaraju atmosferu na početku, a saksofon je nadograđuje), zatim gradacije vrtloga užasa i patnje - na kraju neminovna smrt kao spasenje. I sve to u nešto više od četiri minuta. Kompozicija ‘Mary Turner – American Tradition’ je sa njegovog fantastičnog prošlogodišnjeg albuma Omega kojim je pokušao da naslika američku realnost rasnih i drugih podjela. I to je uradio maestralno.

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On #Day12 Of #29daysofblackheroesandvillians we bring you all #Strix aka #MaryTurner from the #courtofowls. Mary Turner was the assassin sent by the Court of Owls to coerce Commissioner Gordon into letting his police force handle the Night of the Owls ineffectively, and into inadvertently lighting a modified Bat-Signal which filleds the sky with the symbol of the Court of Owls, thereby killing hope that the Batman would save Gotham. As a child, she was horribly disfigured by a bomb attached to a balloon - an innovative attack by Emperor Hirohito, meant to cause panic in the United States during World War II. As such, her attack on Gotham City as a Talon involved the use of similar devices. On the Night of the Owls, she faced Batgirl, but despite her superior fighting skills, she let Batgirl go, feeling kinship because they both wore masks. Later, Catwoman broke Mary out of Blackgate Penitentiary having been hired by a prominent member of the Court. When she realized his motivations, though, she turned on him, and with Batgirl, they defeated his Talons - including Mary, who turned on her master in the name of friendship with the two women. In order to protect Mary, Catwoman faced the police alone, leaving Batgirl to get Mary out. Batgirl's solution was to find a place for Mary with the Birds of Prey, giving her the codename "Strix" - which is Latin for "owl". Comicsandconvo #28daysofblackheroesandvillians #29daysofblackheroesandvillians #28daysofblackcomiccharacters #29daysofblackcomiccharacters #dccomics #Strix #maryturner #courtofowls #batman #batgirl https://www.instagram.com/p/B8fuvAPFA30/?igshid=hx7t705gxdyt

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The charming Mary Turner, creator of the original Captain Scarlet puppet, gives her approval of our figure at Fanderson. #captainscarlet #maryturner #puppet #fanderson #gerryanderson #onesixthscale #onesixthrepublic #bigchief #bigchiefstudios

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@miamiherald “It began when somebody killed Hampton Smith, a white plantation owner. Suspicion fell on Sidney Johnson, an African-American worker said to have had a wage dispute with Smith. A vengeful white mob, unable to find Johnson, killed other black people instead, including a man named Hayes Turner. His wife, outraged beyond self-preservation, loudly vowed to swear out a warrant against the murderers. So the next day, they came for her. #MaryTurner was maybe 20 years old. She was eight months pregnant. They strung her up by her ankles in a tree. They doused her with gasoline and motor oil. They set her afire. But that wasn’t the worst of what they did. NAACP official Walter White, a pale African-American man with blonde hair and blue eyes whose appearance allowed him to interview lynch mob members firsthand, left a chilling account in his 1929 book, “Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch.” (Note: though now used primarily as an anti-gay slur, “faggot” — the modern spelling has one “g” — also means a bundle of sticks). Wrote White: “Mocking, ribald laughter from her tormenters answered the helpless woman’s screams of pain and terror. ‘Mister, you ought to’ve heard the nigger wench howl!’ a member of the mob boasted to me a few days later… The clothes [having] burned from her crisply toasted body in which, unfortunately, life still lingered, a man stepped towards the woman and, with his knife, ripped open the abdomen in a crude Caesarean operation. Out tumbled the prematurely born child. Two feeble cries it gave — and received for answer the heel of a stalwart man, as life was ground out of the tiny form.” The baby died without a name. History does not even record its gender. The mob buried it with its mother in a shallow grave. As a “headstone,” they stuck an empty whiskey bottle in the ground with a half-smoked cigar poking up out of the neck. I told you’d be disgusted. And maybe you’re wondering why I felt the need to share such a grisly tale. Call it a reminder. In a time when we see tribal hatreds rising with renewed vigor all over the world, a time when fascism is on the march in Charlottesville and on the ballot in Slovakia.” https://www.instagram.com/p/BsIoNI3glwk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o2nkr6h704sd

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Last Week....A Small Oak Tree Runs Red, The Billie Holiday Theatre, 1368 Fulton Street, Bklyn NY 11216 😩1918 holocaust lynchings of 11 African Americans including Mary Turner & her unborn baby @billieholidaytheatre #restorationplaza #brooklyn #bedstuy #holocaust #lynching #maryturner #lastweekend (at Billie Holiday Theatre, Inc.)

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Another thinkpiece on Rebel Monuments.

I am deeply interested in the Civil War. I consume a lot of documentaries and historical books. I portray a Union soldier as a sometime-re-enactor. I have toured six of the national battlefields so far, and one of my ancestors was wounded at Gettysburg (on the third day, my guess during the artillery barrage before Pickett’s Charge). I am interested.

It’s fantastic to find other people to discuss this important and pivotal time in American—and world—history. Stories about heroic bravery, dumb luck and masterful strategy abound; personal details and anecdotes preserved in diaries and letters connect us to the nearly three million people who fought—and the more than 500,000 who died—in the largest bloodbath our nation has ever seen.

So I was surprised as the national conversation emanated from the horrific violence in Virginia—since the white supremacists were in town to preserve a statue of Robert E. Lee, this was a teaching moment about the actual history of most Confederate monuments with national potential. It seemed like people were becoming more interested in discussing the War, and its implications regarding Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, and even Black Lives Matter.

Yet as it turns out, most people apparently don’t care about the actual War, or about how those monuments actually got there.

There’s a lot to be said about the denigration of the south in the years immediately following the War—Reconstruction was, in many ways, an exercise in condemnation and condescension from the north, who used militarized tactics to enforce order, not to reunify the country. Disgraced southerners used this as justification to dig in even deeper, but some were genuinely interested in preserving the historically significant areas and using structures as a testament and memorial to their loved ones’ sacrifice. In Manassas, Virginia, a separate cemetery contains reclaimed Confederate bodies, made possible by painstaking work of the Daughters of the Confederacy beginning in 1867.

Only a handful of structures went up in the decades just after the War. The great majority of the statues in parks, courthouse lawns, schoolyards and city squares arrived much later. After “Birth of a Nation” rejuvenated the inflated sense of righteousness for the ‘Lost Cause’ and twisted the narrative to justify commitment to said Cause, hundreds of statues appeared in public places with no historical significance. Membership in the KKK (created by ex-Confederates) skyrocketed after “Birth of a Nation,” and 3-4 million people were a huge block of voters, taxpayers, and undoubtedly some police forces, schools, and halls of ‘justice’. Subsequently, homage to Confederates appeared—not to remember the sacrifice of the dead, but to reaffirm their town’s commitment to white supremacy. The next trend in monument manifestation was during the 1950s, as a direct response to the Civil Rights movement when the War had been over more almost a century. (Graphs and research on this courtesy of the SPLC)

Many claim that the statues need to remain because they’re part of our history. Yet when one attempts discussion at the monuments’ true origin, the interest in history evaporates. So many of those who espouse desire to acknowledge America’s history have neither an inkling of the myriad terrifying acts of violence committed by lynch-mobs, nor any desire to understand why a symbol of oppression might be harmful to a community whose members were routinely kidnapped, tortured, and murdered with the blessing of municipal government.

The reason why the Confederacy is still on the stage is pretty simple: Robert E. Lee is much more endearing than Adolf Hitler. Lee has had centuries’ worth of rebranding—thanks to millions of people, reaffirming every day various legends and folklore meant to cast him as a virtuous hero with zero flaws—yarns that began to weave before the War was even over.

Robert E. Lee has six statues (four others have been removed) not on battlefields, 23 roads, two holidays and 19 grade schools. Emmett Till has one sign near the riverbank where he was brutally murdered, which is six years old and routinely defaced. Mary Turner, her husband Hayes, and their baby have one sign, erected in 2010. They are two of the hundreds who met unimaginable fates at the hands of white mobs, and having any memorial marker at all is an exception to the rule.

We are obliged to remember our history, so as to avoid repeating it. These negative moments in our past, of oppression and systemic denigration of black people among them, are important to never forget. But they don’t need to be propped onto literal pedestals as a paragon of virtue in order to heed the warning. When we talk about “our history,” it seems more like people are choosing which moments in history to prioritize.

Besides, it’s clear from Charlottesville that some people still don’t believe all are created equal, and it’s obvious no number of statues will teach them.

Equal Justice Initiative, which among many projects is working toward a lynching memorial: https://eji.org/national-lynching-memorial

American Experience episode on Emmitt Till (graphic):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-X4is9jMYk

Remembering Mary Turner (and a database of known lynchings in Georgia): http://www.maryturner.org/

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😢😢😢 #NeverForget #MaryTurner #1918 #3TheHardWayTV (at Chicago, Illinois)

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ReduxStock: Photo by Panos Pictures photographer Mary Turner of Manchester, England during one of the country’s lockdowns of 2020, in The Atlantic, January 5, 2021.

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Remembering #MaryTurner (May of 1918) #In14Ways #Racism #MercyfulGrace Good heavens ..' - #In14Ways #MercyfulGrace #Light #Love #Power #Whitesupremacy #BlackLivesMatter

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We Throwback The Truth,The Struggles our fellow Black queens went through! Twenty year-old Mary Turner (m.n. Hattie Graham), 8 months pregnant at the time and whose husband had been killed in this "lynching rampage" on Sunday, May 19th, publicly objected to her husband's murder. She also had the audacity to threaten to swear out warrants for those responsible. Those "unwise remarks," as the area papers put it, enraged locals. Consequently, Mary Turner fled for her life only to be caught and taken to a place called Folsom's Bridge on the Brooks and Lowndes Counties' shared border. To punish her, at Folsom's Bridge the mob tied Mary Turner by her ankles, hung her upside down from a tree, poured gasoline on her and burned off her clothes. One member of the mob then cut her stomach open and her unborn child dropped to the ground where it was reportedly stomped on and crushed by a member of the mob. Her body was then riddled with gunfire from the mob. Later that night she and her baby were buried ten feet away from where they were murdered. The makeshift grave was marked with only a "whiskey bottle" with a "cigar" stuffed in its neck. #Blackhistory #maryturner #Know #harshreality #blacktruth #stopbleaching #stopbleach #melanin #notoskinlightening #beproud #tbt

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