June 28, 2023

LENA BAKER: THE BLACK MAID WHO WAS SENTENCED TO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR FOR DEFENDING HERSELF AGAINST HER RAPIST EMPLOYER

…..She had a snowballs chance in hell of winning this case against her…..on August 14th, 1944…..see what I mean?…..she faced an all-white…..all-male jury….a panel that hardly represented a fair….and impartial assessment of the case…..aka….Emmett Till…..despite her clear testimony of self-defense and the violent history of abuse inflicted upon her….the jury rejected her plea and convicted her of capital murder….and in Georgia…..that’s an automatic death sentence…..but let’s back up a bit…..Lena…..born June 8th, 1900 in…..of all places….Cuthbert, Georgia….to a family of sharecroppers…..long story short…..grew up in a racially divided society…….worked as a farm laborer with her siblings…..and her life took a fateful turn…..when she found work as a maid to support her family in 1940….Ernest Knight…..an elderly white guy owned a gristmill in Cuthbert…..Knight subjected Lena to sexual assault and held her in a form of near slavery…..confining her to his property for days at a time…..and Knight’s son voiced his disapproval of the relationship…..and the townspeople weren’t too happy when they found out what was going on….and threats were made against Lena…..a perfect example of….. “Blame it on the Black guy”…..and the situation reached a boiling point when they had an argument……Knight threatened Lena with an iron bar…..she tried to escape the violent situation…..and Lena struggles with Knight over his pistol….and during the struggle…..she managed to fire the fatal shot that killed Knight….she even reported the incident to the police…..and claimed self-defense…..and the rest of this bias racial bullshit…..is history…..I love the fact that….the “Townspeople” knew what was going on…..and they still voted to fry her in the electric chair…..Governor Ellis Arnall intervened and granted Lena a 60-day reprieve…..allowing the Board of Pardons and Parole to review her case…..January 1945…..they said “Nah”….and on February 23rd 1945 she was transferred to Georgia State Prison to await her execution….her last words were….. “What I done….I did in self-defense, or, I would’ve killed myself…..where I was, I could not overcome it…..God has forgiven me….I have nothing against Mr. Pritchett and he has been good to me….I am ready to go…..I am one in the number…..I am ready to meet my God”…..and on March 5th, 1945…..she met her maker…..and her body was laid to rest in an unmarked grave behind Mount Vernon Baptist Church….a place where she once sang in the choir…..and as usual…..this always happens…..in 2005….Georgia granted Lena Baker a full and unconditional pardon…..acknowledging the grave errors committed during her trial…..and the undeniable racial bias that tainted the legal proceedings…..just like George Stinney Jr….the 14-year-old child who was wrongly accused and was not given a fair trial…..and over 70 years later….he was exonerated….70 years after he was sentenced to death in 1944….and was the youngest person to die by electrocution….for the murder of two white girls in South Carolina….a trial that lasted less than three hours…..and bore no evidence and barely any witnesses…..Black people are 7 times more likely than White people…..to be wrongly convicted of murder….a publication of Lena’s biography came out in 2001…..and the film…..The Lena Baker Story was released in 2008……I love this also…..the book and film were efforts aimed to shed light on the injustice endured by Lena….and to ensure that her memory lives on…..as a reminder of the struggles for justice and equality that African Americans faced throughout history…..a reminder?…..guess what….. remember the…..

FLORIDA WOMAN WHO SHOT, KILLED HER BLACK NEIGHBOR WON’T BE CHARGED WITH MURDER…..Because the police said there’s….. “Insufficient evidence”….to charge a woman who shot through her door and killed her Black neighbour…..while yelling racial slurs at her children…..and then there’s also…..

BLACK WOMAN GUNNED DOWN AT A GAS STATION BECAUSE SHE WAS GAY……Akira Ross…..24-years-old……Bradley Stanford…..23-year-old…..she didn’t know him…..he shouted gay slurs…..shot her and fled the scene…..they got him a few hours later…..and they’re calling it…..as usual….. “A Hate Crime”……and then we have this crap….and…..

OKLAHOMA BUSINESSMAN…..Was sentenced to life in prison…..for killing a Black employee…..and burying him in a septic tank…..this guy was a former city councilman in Guthrie, OK……and I guess the jury adding seven years for desecrating a corpse…..was to make sure he never gets out of prison…..even though he’ll be doing life…..without parole?….and let’s continue on to this thing called…..

CANDACE OWENS….Who is a Right-Wing podcast host…..and a Black woman BTW…..accused Black people of being….. “Soft and emotional”…..and we….. “Cry like bitches”……and this all started when a Twitter user…..responded to her criticism of Juneteenth…..calling it a pander of a holiday…..and ghetto and made up….. “I am not kidding when I say that over 90% of my podcast content criticizes White people in politics and culture…..but because Black people are soft, emotional and have had their brains rotted by BLM…..in the rare circumstances that I cover a black topic…..they cry like bitches”…..yep, she posted that…..here’s the thing Candance……that train you’re riding on right now…..when the conductor gets tired of you being on it……who’s going to greet you…..once you get off……because it sure as hell won’t be Black folks…..and since your ass was thrown off the train….it sure as hell…..won’t be friends…..of the conductor.

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