Current Events > Delaware FINALLY Removes Public WHIPPING POST used mostly on BLACK People!!

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Dozens of people witnessed history this morning in Delaware outside the Old Sussex county Courthouse to see a work crew dismantle the state's last publicly displayed WHIPPING POST that was historically used to hold people there to be WHIPPED for committing crimes but also used mostly on BLACK AMERICANS who were subjected to the horrific whipping!!

It took workers an hour and a half to dig up the 8 foot concrete post as the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs says it will be placed in a Dover Storage unit with other historical artifacts including another whipping post that once stood near The Green in Dover

They plan to work with historians, educators and african american leaders to display the post in a museum setting where it can be properly contextualized and interpreted

Tim Slavin said "It is appropriate for an item like this to be preserved in the state's collections so that future generations may view it and attempt to understand the full context of its historical significance. It's quite another thing to allow a whipping post to remain in place along a busy public street, a cold, deadpan display that does not adequately account for the traumatic legacy it represents and that still reverberates among communities of colour in our state"

This comes after nearly 2 decades after Delaware outlawed state sanctioned public floggings outside jails and prisons as the sentence for whipping post for crimes range from petty theft to rape and would be lashed up to FORTY TIMES for a single offense with african americans being punished disproprotionately

One woman in her 90s remembers the whipping as a young girl in the 30's that has stayed in her memory all these years as she remembered standing in a crowd with her father and sister outside the Kent County Jail and watching a man stripped down to his waist and shackled to an 8 foot post, dubbed "Red Hannah" being whipped iwth a cat-9-tails: a multi whip equipped with nine rawhide lashes

She still remembered the eerie siilence that was piercedby the lashes as the warden would loudly count

People of all races were lashed but black people represented 60% of the lashes even though they made up less than 20% of the population

State officials were urged to remove the whipping post even beforethe death of George Floyd sparked international outrage and set off a push to remove Confederate monuments as Trump intends to fight back to keep them there

Do you support the removal of these whipping posts?

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Looks like the Washington monument had a racist baby.

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Just imagine a little girl going "What's that for mommy?"
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sheesh this countrys racism is always on display

Hopefully it winds up in a proper museum.

I'm honestly stunned they just had it out on display like that. It's one thing to have a statue of someone who might have done misdeeds, but this is just... "hey, this pillar was used to flog people, don't you forget it or you'll be next"

.... Though, to be fair if I saw it without context I'd think it was some sort of weird mooring point for an airship or something.

Jesus. That thing was still on display in 2020

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