lynching is a tool to control and oppress black people. racialized violence is as old as the constitution. klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but it s still happening. today, people are horrified of the police. it s the modern day lynching. what are we going to do about it? we move forward with people deciding i m bold enough, and i m going to make it change. beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the united states. this is an incredible story of courage. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. living in mobile was a quiet town. it s nothing but old trees. but after march 1981, it was kind of, like, creepy to me to just look at the trees. the hurt is still there. the hurt my mom went through, i just visualize her face and i go, like, i can t talk about it today. my mama, beulah mae donald, was a quiet woman. she was a good-hearted person. all the neighbor
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all kinds of things were running through our mind. we didn t rule out the police hunt because of what had already happened. i knew wilbur and i know what the reputation was on some things that he did earlier in his career. there was an incident that had occurred some years before here in mobile. police officer stopped us and engaged us, wondering what we were doing in the neighborhood. we told him we were having car trouble, and one thing led to another. i was there when the incident started. a robbery suspect was apprehended named glenn diamond. i was the revolutionary in the neighborhood. when my name come up, everybody want to, you know, get this guy here because i, you know, i always protested police mistreating black people.
culprits that night, but overall, when it came down to the relationship with the police department and the black community, it was always hostile. ida b wells once said, the ones who write the reports commit the murders. even when other officers know that something someone is doing within the department is wrong, there is such a wall of silence. the blue wall is what we call it. michael was the lawyer for glenn diamond and later michael donald, and he just knew that that was the lay of the land, that there was racism on every level and it needed to be fought. we re calling upon mobile s black community to be as cool as possible in response to this murder but at the same time, we
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