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| Name | Hanged and forgotten, until now. How Tampa could honor lynching victims |
| Video Uploader | Video From 10 Tampa Bay |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 03-01-2020 23:27:51 |
| Video Discription | How did this idea come about? Tampa City Councilman Luis Viera: A group of community leaders came together. Really good individuals locally from the community to talk about having a marker, memorial here to commemorate victims of racial lynching in the Tampa/Hillsborough County area. We know that from the end of Reconstruction to about the 1930s, five individuals who were African American were lynched on account of the fact that they were black. We've recently submitted an application to the Equal Justice Initiative, so they'll be reviewing that. So, in terms of timeline, it could be anywhere from three months to a year. State Rep. Fentrice Driskell: This initiative is so important to our community because it's critical that we memorialize history and try to understand where we've been so we can better understand where we are and where we’re going. Why isn’t the history of lynching more widely known? Driskell: One of the things that we’re hoping to do with this project is to increase visibility. Unfortunately, lynchings and that history just really has not been a part of curriculum and what typically has been taught in our schools. But we’re hoping that this is a great first step to elevate the conversation and really bring awareness to this racial injustice. In an ideal world, this project will help spark conversations and dialogue all over our community. Not just during Black History Month, but just generally have it woven into the fabric of who we are as Tampanians and who we are as Floridians and Americans. I think it’s very important for us to understand the racial intolerance that we’re seeing in dialogue present-day really can trace back to our history and not having truly dealt with that history. So, this is a part of opening up conversation so that we can have more healing and understanding. How does the EJI play into all of this? Viera: The EJI is an organization from Montgomery, Alabama, that deals with promoting a full, historical accounting of what happened in the United States whenever it comes to issues of racial injustice, and then dealing with the repercussions of those issues today. We submitted the marker [application] to them because of their record on these types of issues because the kinds of values they promote are consistent with the values we want this marker to promote. What goes through your mind when you think about those victims? Viera: It should shock us. It should shock the conscience, but it shouldn't surprise us. If you know our history, you know that these things happened...We're a country that's starting in 1619 before the founding of our country 400 years ago, we began with slavery. We had slavery for 90 years after the formal founding of our country, 11 years of Reconstruction, 90 years of Jim Crow. There's a lot of tragedies to be told in there, and we have to learn those tragedies. As Americans, we have to know the greatness of our country, and I'm a very patriotic person. I believe there's a lot of greatness in our country, but we have to talk about the full picture. And again, we have to talk about that saying, which is the things that are wrong with America, they can be corrected and remedied and sanctified by things that are tight about America. And the things that we talk about in this initiative, I believe that those reflect our best aspirational values as Americans. What can we learn from erecting a memorial for lynching victims in Tampa? Civil rights professor Tammy Briant Spratling: The number one critical piece of this initiative is raising visibility and beginning a conversation of reconciliation and recognition of this history. These victims have never had the opportunity to be recognized. They don’t even have the privilege of being in public records because they were taken out of the legal system. So, you can’t go and search for facts about their cases. A memorial does something to initiate the conversation and give them some visibility. We are on a journey of reconciliation and healing…I would want [the community] to internalize the histories of these individual victims and to understand that they were people and that they matter and that their stories matter and that we want to make sure that this can never happen again. [We should be] always going through the appropriate legal system and that we don’t have individuals in our community taking matters into their own hands. https://bit.ly/2tupkXe ►Subscribe: https://on.wtsp.com/youtube ►Website: https://www.wtsp.com/ ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/10NewsWTSP/ ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/10NewsWTSP 10News WTSP is the local CBS affiliate for Tampa Bay, Florida. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, and original journalism covering topics that matter most to Floridians. Subscribe for more; videos are updated daily! |
| Category | News & Politics |
| Tags | local | hillsboroughcounty | polkcounty | black-history | news | jim crow | lynching | injustice | bigotry | racism |
