Tennessee Weighs Whether To Form A Commission Or Not To Examine Brutality of Jim Crow

[TexasTowelie]

Charlie Morris vividly recalls his brother's murder.

Jesse Lee Bond was a sharecropper in Shelby County. Suspicious because his harvests never seemed to cover his debts, in the spring of 1939, Bond asked the local general store for a receipt of his seed purchases.

For his diligence, he was shot, castrated, dragged and left for dead in the Hatchie River.

"The medical examiner at that time, as well as the sheriff, when they took him out of the river, they told the Commercial Appeal there was no signs of anything but drowning," Morris says.

Now 97, Morris described the killing and cover-up at a legislative hearing earlier this year.

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[heaven05]

1. how many

generations ago this happened and the mentality that the 'sheriff and medical examiner' showed in this case is ruling in the WH. Tennessee, IF they should create the 'commission' would not mean a goddamn thing to POC. I t would be one more way for the bigots and racists to keep their conscience on even keel.

Here was an honest hardworking POC trying to get ahead in life, you know MAYBE be able to share in the american dream ...........and ends up dead, the murder of him most heinous and horrendous...and what's with this all the time castrating a black man before murdering him.....never mind I know and that sick mentality is at the highest levels of 'leadership' of this country now.....sick and sad....the hate exhibited by this type of murder. I wonder how large the murder victim's family was....how many children depending on him

[Nitram]

2. I'm not sure I agree. Acknowledging crimes of the past is the first step towards setting the history

straight. It is important that our history include the things we'd like to forget or cover up.