Snapchat Photo Depicting Lynching “Joke” Between A White Boy And His Black Friend Causes Uproar

The Daily Mail reports that a Snapchat image making the rounds on social media is causing an outrage, even as the participants in the image are trying to say that its intent was not to offend. The image, depicting a Black high school student, in Alabama being “lynched” with a noose by a white peer, is captioned, “treating him right at Curry High.” Unsurprisingly, this created a firestorm of anger from those both in the community and outside of it, and both students and the one who took the photo were both suspended for the picture.

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http://yourblackworld.net/2016/05/17/snapchat-photo-depicting-lynching-joke-between-a-white-boy-and-his-black-friend-causes-uproar/

 

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

 

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.