when a black woman has the temerity to take on any white assailant, any white person who deigns to take the life of a black person, particularly in the deep south beulah mae donald s life, the life of her family, her community is at risk. she had every reason to be afraid. there was an empirical, historical basis for absolute terror. gosh, when the community would just come and sit in front of my mom s door. so i think they call this protecting the house and protecting her. because the klan was still around in mobile. i thought one of the best ways to really catch up on exactly what had happened that night, i had the chief investigator, bob eddy, and we got with the fbi and we got tiger knowles.
i don t think there was a dry eye in that courtroom. i know it wasn t at our counsel table, and i saw jurors brushing back tears. beulah mae donald s ability to forgive james tiger knowles of an unspeakable crime is a commentary on her character and not on his crime. but it also raises the question, how long must america count on the bottomless well of black people s forgiveness? i was angry. i was angry for a long time. i just had to forgive him because it wasn t going to bring the girls back. it wasn t going to bring my
but the message has to be loud and clear. no man is an island. we re all a part of one another. each man s death diminishes me. for i am involved in mankind, and therefore never seem to know for whom the bell tolls. they toll for mrs. donald right now. but one day they may toll for thee. thank you. whenever heartburn strikes, get fast relief with tums. its time to love food back. tum, tum tum tum, tums (vo) businesses nationwide are switching to verizon business internet. (woman) it s a perfect fit for my small business. (vo) verizon has business internet solutions nationwide. (man) for our not-so-small business too. (vo) get internet that keeps your business ready for anything. from verizon. your record label is taking off.
to have an african american woman die a year after holding the klan accountable for her son s death, says everything about the weight of this racial trauma, on beulah may donald s showered. thishoulders.this was investiga, grief, pain. we should all ask ourselves, how can we demonstrate this same degree of courage and character in our lives to pursue justice, to do so with grace and dignity, to find a way to extend forgiveness. her eulogy is ongoing. black women carry the entire struggle on our backs. what goes along with that is a lot of trauma. so people look at us and say,
had a chance to rule on the acts of a hate group organization and its members for doing a serious, horrible lynching. if we could win this case, we could wipe out all the groups. beulah mae donald, having endured the emotional rigors of a criminal trial, knew that she wasn t done. my mother, she said the worst has already been done. my child is gone. i want to make them pay for what they ve done to my child. it became a national case. the donald family felt others were involved and filed a civil suit against the united klan. the aim was to dismantle whatever financial base the group has and to establish a precedent that can be used by other victims of klan violence. we filed a civil suit against a group of named klan individuals. benny hayes chose tiger knowles and henry hayes to do this deed. got them a gun, got them a rope to go out and find a black