Hanging in Effigy Is a Hate Crime
- w październik 29th, 2008 :: Seks, Filmy, Kategoria podstawowa
In the last comments section of “America, Oh America,” Benjamin provides a link for the report of Barack Obama hanging in effigy in Kentucky and says, “I’m not in favor of any effigy-hanging, but there just seems to be something different about hanging a black man in effigy in KY than hanging a white woman in effigy in CA.”
I replied to Benjamin that it depends how broad a scope of history one has. As a serious amateur scholar of the American Puritan era and of medieval Europe, my frame of reference here is different than that of the typical American. Many Americans do not even know that hundreds of thousands of women were accused of being witches between 1450-1750 by not only the Catholic Inquisition, but by the secular (Reformation) courts. In fact, the vast majority of the tens of thousands of subsequent burnings at the stake happened […]