The Noose

I want to warn you that this piece is graphic for a good reason.

Sadly, we must never forget a very very dark time in history. A time when there were no record deals, no shoe deals, no entertainment deals, no book deals, no freedom and most of all no justice. This Black History month on the first day we remember the darkest execution method known at that time when an owned slave was hung. No black on black crime, just the property of the master. To reflect, the reality is that you died from being hung with a noose. 

The loophole is where the head entered creating a yanking position around the neck and the long part of the rope was then tied to a sturdy piece of level surface. The rope tightens at the looped part cutting off circulation to the brain. At this point gravity pulls the body to its end.

To die in this form is a symbol of how brutal life can be when a person literally doesn’t matter or feels so isolated that they choose this method to die. Sadly, in the past, people who were brutally beaten into submission were hung just for being Black. This stain in history has led us to present day forming a hard historical memory that many would rather forget. Sadly, there was not much mercy in the past, many victims never saw or understood freedom. In present time many have not forgotten and in present day the rage has created an evil that is a symptom of hate that will probably never go away. 

The Noose