An Endless Racist Act?

Discrimination against African Americans is and has always been a major problem with society. Many lives have been ruined and lost. It is horrible to think that someone could kill another person based on the color of one’s skin, but that is what happened almost every day after the Civil War ended in 1865 and slaves were freed. Lynching became a common practice among white people. Lynching means any type of illegal torture or murder, usually by a mob, against an accused person or persons (Zangrando 1). It became very popular for white people to take the law into their own hands and execute an African American. There were a great deal of lynching acts in the past that show the horrifying times that African Americans had to live through. African Americans today are still affected by lynching and other acts of discrimination.
Lynching was and still is very disturbing and horrifies most African Americans today. In a short poem “Lesson,” Forrest Hamer, tells of a trip taken with ...