Blog#2

                     Whether white people have the rights to lynch black people was, is, and will be questioned as long as American history and American literature have been studied. According to the Red Record, black people were lynched due to such crimes as arson, murder, rape, robbery, assaults, burglary, and theft, as well as attempted and alleged ones. The terrible injustice was done to the colored people, men and women, who were put to death without form of law.  The victims were not given opportunity to defend themselves lawfully. In the film, Within Our Gates, the cruelty to black people is depicted. It is ironic when it turns out that Sylvia is white when Gridlestone's son comes to rape and probably murder Sylvia during the lynching, he finds a scar on her chest that reveals her as his long lost sister . We learn that in the past Sylvia's family was lynched by a southern mob bent on punishing her father for an accused murder of a leading white plantation owner, Phillip Gridlestone. In reality, Gridlestone was shot by an angry white worker. This is not fair at all.
Historically, Reconstruction was aimed to enhance better equal rights. However, it is considered as failure because the South thought they were treated harshly. The results must have been changed if Lincoln’s assassination had not been successful. It may have been better welcomed by the North, but in fact, the North did not really understand the South. They did not really help their “brothers”. There have never been real equal rights.