![]() ![]() Not because they lacked the courage to tell the story but in order to safeguard their own well-being. And they do speak! Sims embodied the spirit of Ezekiel: for almost two years (from July 2009 to Feb 2011) she attempted to breathe life into a southern valley full of dry unburied bones, to resurrect that from which many black people would rather avert their gaze rather than re-member. Sims is like Ezekiel asking can these bones live and speak. Sims calls these acts of remembering and of testifying prophetic practice. ![]() Black people were subjected to surveillance and the constant threat that they could be the next strange fruit hanging from popular trees. Those who choose to participate, to be interviewed testified to what they saw and felt, as well as what they were made to feel but did not see with their own eyes. ![]() Sims sat with and listened to black people telling their truth and painfully re-membering what it was like to live in a culture of terror characterized by the lynching of black bodies. Lynched represents the culmination of qualitative research Dr. It has always been necessary for black people to say that black lives matter. Sims’s book Lynched connects these dots, demonstrating a trajectory from a not so distant past to the present. Throughout our history, the dominant culture has created a culture of terror in tandem with an ideology of inferiority and a mythological (as in fictional) fear of black bodies that has resulted in state sanctioned lynching and neo-lynching of black men, women, children and some of their allies. ![]()
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