The Horror: Children Lynching Children - SARN Minis #57

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Sharon Hurley Hall
November 22, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute

The Horror: Children Lynching Children - SARN Minis #57 Transcript

Hi, I'm Sharon Hurley Hall, welcome to the Sharon's Anti Racism Newsletter podcast.

There were a lot of topics I was thinking about for this podcast episode - I still want to talk about Kamala Harris and Kemi Badenoch, for example.

But as I was looking through my feed, I came across a story about a seven year old boy whom his older schoolmates - I believe they were about 9 - tried to hang! As far as I understand it, the 7 year old is Black and the older kids are white.

Frankly, I was appalled and hurt. For someone racialised as Black, anything that looks like a lynching - and what else could you call this - raises epigenetic trauma.

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