lynching is a tool to control and oppress black people. racialized violence is as old as the constitution. klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but it s still happening. today, people are horrified of the police. it s the modern day lynching. what are we going to do about it? we move forward with people deciding i m bold enough, and i m going to make it change. beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in the united states. this is an incredible story of courage. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. living in mobile was a quiet town. it s nothing but old trees. but after march 1981, it was kind of, like, creepy to me to just look at the trees. the hurt is still there. the hurt my mom went through, i just visualize her face and i go, like, i can t talk about it today. my mama, beulah mae donald, was a quiet woman. she was a good-hearted person. all the neighbor
was. michael donald was an innocent, good samaritan. not a thug. so we obtained permission to search michael s room, and basically found nothing in his bedroom. we knew the kind of young man he was. we knew the kind of family he had. some people were trying to say that we don t think it s an issue that has anything to do with violation of civil rights. we don t think it has anything to do with race. we think that was something, a drug deal that went bad or something. we knew that wasn t the case. you couldn t convince anybody in the black community. so we had to just live and walk through it, because we knew that he was just an innocent person. he was innocent in this. they tried to deviate from the truth to take the attention from what really happened.
saw with trayvon martin, what we saw with george floyd, and what we saw with sandra bland. we say with this mamie till, who had to defend her 14-year-old child s reputation, and eric garner s mother having to defend her son. who simply did not want to be harassed. they want to assassinate our child twice. they want to kill them on the street and then assassinate their character. so we have to get out there and say no, you re wrong. let me tell you who my child was. michael donald was an innocent good samaritan. not a thug. so we obtained permission to search michael s room, and basically found nothing in his