What in the world would posses someone to hang a noose?

Ok so I am sitting at work yesterday and I'm watching the news online. I keep hearing and seeing all the stories of about the different places that people have recently hung a noose. Then CNN online did a great story about the history of the noose. To even include some graphic ... and I mean graphic pictures. As I sit watching this I just broke down and cried. How could anyone ... and I do mean anyone ever hang another human being? They were talking about it wasn't just black men who were hung. (as if that would be ok!) Then they showed some pictures that just made me breakdown in tears. Pictures of children who'd been hung and of pregnant women. I mean young children like the age of 6 or 7. They were hung for insulting a 'white person'. What was most disturbing about these images was the people who did the 'hangings' and witnessed them stayed to pose with the limp dead bodies afterwards with a giant smile on their faces ... and these too were men woman and children. I wanted to throw up. With all kinds of thoughts going thru my head. They reluctently through the tears now streaming down my face I kept watching. As the historian and college professor explained more and more. She said the history of the noose is much much more complicated then the everday person would know. She began to explain why. Now growing up we were taught in school about slavery and 'lynchings' but this proffessor was correct. I juse didn't know. Did you know that the people who were made to wear the noose not only were hung but some shot several times and set on fire too? I don't mean set on fire after death .. I mean before. How could anyone ... I mean anyone .. be so cold inside their hearts where they could do this to another human? My stomach turned as I saw the images going across the screen. I mean graphic .. graphic images...again of men, women, and children.  I think some of the worst photo's there were the ones of the pregnant woman and her children having been hung together. The feeling inside me just growing and growing like a hurricane. I began to think ... these cold hearted bastards how could they. Then they showed the recent noose's they found hanging. They showed one that was hung in a police department that had just hired a new (and the only) black officer. I want a DNA test done on this rope and I want the police officer who hung it to be sent away for a hate crime. You know to get into a police locker room you have to be an officer or work in the building. Then they showed one a college campus .. where ironically enough the historian and professor explaining the history of the noose's daughter just began attending this same college. I just want to know how could these people today in a modern intergrated society ever hang such an awful symbol of hate and torcher? Maybe these cowards who hung this symbol of hate are the decendants to the late evil doers. For the love of god why in 2007 would anyone do such a thing? I would have never lasted back in the slavery and lynching days. I would have been hung myself for being a 'traitor'. I would want to run around like robin hood and put an end to the hanging, the beatings, and the torcher of others. Why didn't these people of years back notice the likeness between the races? Do we not all bleed the same? Do we not all goes through trials and tribulations in life, do we not all have heart aches and pains? We were all born and made of the same image. How could anyone be so heartless and inhumane? Makes me sick.

So on behalf of all the people of my 'race' I just want to say we are not all like this. We do not all believe in such awful symbols. We do not agree with the awful doings of the past. I personally would like to see a world where everyone can live in peace and harmony. I want to see a world where my children .. and the children of the world are united. I want to see a world where there is no racism and hatred. I want to see a world where they is no war .. but only peace. I want to see a world where my sons and daughter can marry and have children with who they chose and no one stop and stare and judge them by the colors of their skin. I want to see a world where my 'white children' and my 'biracial children' are treated equal. I want to live in a world where I can walk around freely with my youngest child and not have people question if he is mine. Or hear the whispers when we pass by. Can't we all just love people as individuals and be greatful god made us a little 'different'? Who would want to live in a world where we all look and talk the same way? How boring that day would be! I am glad for the 'differences' that we do have. This helps us to be unique. Why not hold on the individualities and grow and prosper and be happy with each other? I love all people .. of all races.. nations... sexes... I do not discriminate.

We should all pray for the day the world will no longer see each others 'differences' in a bad light but embrace and welcome them. I challange everyone to take it upon themselves and learn something about your fellow people ..... not just of your race or gender but those from other places and other races. It is quite facinating to learn of all the wonderful qualities of others.