The lessons of Beulah Mae Donald, the mother who took down the Klan

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Racial disparities are so great in this country that police shootings are a leading cause of death among Black men. In 2014, a ProPublica analysis found that Black male teenagers are 21 times more likely than their White counterparts to be fatally shot by police.

Few officers are ever charged, let alone convicted. As human lives are reduced to hashtags in our Twitter feeds, Facebook pages and Instagram posts, our worried hearts wonder if justice is even possible.

But there is reason to believe that it is. As a professor of social justice advocacy and leadership, I have found inspiration in the stories of past leaders who have confronted racial injustice without wavering. These leaders and role models are not always people with titles like CEO, executive director, or president -- in fact, they often have titles like "activist," "citizen," or quite simply, "mother."

That would be the title of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Mobile, Alabama, who put up a years long fight for justice after her son Michael was lynched in 1981. Donald led no organization and was not elected to public office, and yet she inspired others by her simple but steadfast insistence on accountability for the life of her child. For six years, she pursued the Ku Klux Klansmen who'd murdered her son in criminal and civil court, eventually leaving their organization bankrupt and defunct. Her story of resilience is not merely inspiring, but instructive for what we can do in 2021 and beyond.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...the-mother-who-took-down-the-klan/ar-BB1fxxjT
 
Hello guno,

guno said:
Racial disparities are so great in this country that police shootings are a leading cause of death among Black men. In 2014, a ProPublica analysis found that Black male teenagers are 21 times more likely than their White counterparts to be fatally shot by police.

Few officers are ever charged, let alone convicted. As human lives are reduced to hashtags in our Twitter feeds, Facebook pages and Instagram posts, our worried hearts wonder if justice is even possible.

But there is reason to believe that it is. As a professor of social justice advocacy and leadership, I have found inspiration in the stories of past leaders who have confronted racial injustice without wavering. These leaders and role models are not always people with titles like CEO, executive director, or president -- in fact, they often have titles like "activist," "citizen," or quite simply, "mother."

That would be the title of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Mobile, Alabama, who put up a years long fight for justice after her son Michael was lynched in 1981. Donald led no organization and was not elected to public office, and yet she inspired others by her simple but steadfast insistence on accountability for the life of her child. For six years, she pursued the Ku Klux Klansmen who'd murdered her son in criminal and civil court, eventually leaving their organization bankrupt and defunct. Her story of resilience is not merely inspiring, but instructive for what we can do in 2021 and beyond.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...the-mother-who-took-down-the-klan/ar-BB1fxxjT
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From the OP link:

"post-mortem character assassination."

A good term. Pretty much standard response from the right whenever a black man is killed by police.

Kinda like the way a rape victim was often put on trial and accused of 'asking for it' with the way of dressing.

For blacks it is always a focus on the victim, looking for anything to say 'he deserved it.'

"When she decided to sue America's oldest terrorist organization in civil court, the case was entitled Beulah Mae Donald v. the United Klans of America. As a result, her suit made her the Black face of a legal threat to White supremacist terrorism.

When she challenged this violent organization, she did so without any state or federal protection. By contrast, when Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama took on Al Qaeda, they did so behind a wall of Secret Service protection.

Few Americans may be called upon to fight terrorism abroad or at home, but we are all called to confront hate with courage.

We should all ask ourselves how we can demonstrate the same degree of courage and character in our lives to pursue justice, and to do so with grace and dignity."

Wow, was she ever lucky. I'm surprised they didn't kill her, too.
 
guno said:
Racial disparities are so great in this country that police shootings are a leading cause of death among Black men. In 2014, a ProPublica analysis found that Black male teenagers are 21 times more likely than their White counterparts to be fatally shot by police.

Few officers are ever charged, let alone convicted. As human lives are reduced to hashtags in our Twitter feeds, Facebook pages and Instagram posts, our worried hearts wonder if justice is even possible.

But there is reason to believe that it is. As a professor of social justice advocacy and leadership, I have found inspiration in the stories of past leaders who have confronted racial injustice without wavering. These leaders and role models are not always people with titles like CEO, executive director, or president -- in fact, they often have titles like "activist," "citizen," or quite simply, "mother."

That would be the title of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Mobile, Alabama, who put up a years long fight for justice after her son Michael was lynched in 1981. Donald led no organization and was not elected to public office, and yet she inspired others by her simple but steadfast insistence on accountability for the life of her child. For six years, she pursued the Ku Klux Klansmen who'd murdered her son in criminal and civil court, eventually leaving their organization bankrupt and defunct. Her story of resilience is not merely inspiring, but instructive for what we can do in 2021 and beyond.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...the-mother-who-took-down-the-klan/ar-BB1fxxjT
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THE leading cause of death of black men in America is....black men.
 
guno said:
Racial disparities are so great in this country that police shootings are a leading cause of death among Black men. In 2014, a ProPublica analysis found that Black male teenagers are 21 times more likely than their White counterparts to be fatally shot by police.

Few officers are ever charged, let alone convicted. As human lives are reduced to hashtags in our Twitter feeds, Facebook pages and Instagram posts, our worried hearts wonder if justice is even possible.

But there is reason to believe that it is. As a professor of social justice advocacy and leadership, I have found inspiration in the stories of past leaders who have confronted racial injustice without wavering. These leaders and role models are not always people with titles like CEO, executive director, or president -- in fact, they often have titles like "activist," "citizen," or quite simply, "mother."

That would be the title of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Mobile, Alabama, who put up a years long fight for justice after her son Michael was lynched in 1981. Donald led no organization and was not elected to public office, and yet she inspired others by her simple but steadfast insistence on accountability for the life of her child. For six years, she pursued the Ku Klux Klansmen who'd murdered her son in criminal and civil court, eventually leaving their organization bankrupt and defunct. Her story of resilience is not merely inspiring, but instructive for what we can do in 2021 and beyond.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...the-mother-who-took-down-the-klan/ar-BB1fxxjT
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Ms. Beulah Mae Donald's horrible tragedies as a result of the stench of the un American KKK resulted in a domestic uproar in her defense and for the following reasons:

February 12, 1987
After hearing Donald's case, an all-White jury awarded a $7 million judgment. The sum was so significant that it effectively bankrupted the United Klans of America, which was known as one of the largest and most violent KKK factions."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/10/us/michael-donald-case-timeline/index.html
 
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