tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post848746289685275500..comments2023-07-20T08:50:43.257-05:00Comments on Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss: June 29, 1928: James and Stanley BeardenAnne M. Lasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13058444764378209954noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919678452339591453.post-55292570523786537482016-09-08T13:38:37.453-05:002016-09-08T13:38:37.453-05:00Stanley was dragged by the neck, I see, assuming t...Stanley was dragged by the neck, I see, assuming that the article is correct. I have my doubts about this because I do see in these articles a tendency toward hasty reporting. Anyway, I hope he was dragged by the neck because he would surely have died faster that way, especially if a slipknot was used. Otherwise, I should think that, if he was dragged slowly, death could have taken a long time indeed, with the initial pain being like a full-body road-burn that just kept getting worse and worse until he presumably bled to death. I’ve wondered how many people were involved in the actual killing, whether it haunted them, whether they ever regretted it, why, in god’s name, people took their families to witness the brutality, the extent to which seeing it gave children nightmares, the psychological affect on the black population of not just knowing it happened and that hundreds were involved in it, but that Stanley Bearden was dragged in front of their houses as an Islamic State type warning that they themselves had better do nothing to piss off a white man. I can’t get my mind around it all.<br /><br />I don’t remember any live oaks in Brookhaven, and the article put me in doubt about just where Ole Brook was because highways 51 and 84 used to split off in the area where it was said to be, and 84—where I had been told Ole Brook was located—doesn’t go to McComb.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.com