African Americans Don’t Hang Themselves From Trees

African Americans Don’t Hang Themselves From Trees

It’s 2025. Once considered a futuristic number, Earl Smith and Demartravion “Trey” Reed were found hanging from trees in New York and Mississippi. Evidence that America has not turned over a new leaf when it comes to “race relations,” its cities continue to bear this “strange fruit.”  More than a setback, it takes the country back to the first lynching of Francis McIntosh in 1836. McIntosh had killed a deputy sheriff while being taken to jail an…