A Black man’s brutal murder has faded from a Texas town’s memory
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Twenty-five years after a Black man, James Byrd, was killed by three White men in this East Texas town, many in Jasper are ready to forget.
  • SpaceBar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    They chained him alive to a pickup truck and dragged him down a gravel road until his head, neck, and arm were torn off.

    They may want to forget that, but they shouldn’t be allowed to.