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Seeing these images and reading the descriptions fill me with such sadness, terror, shame, and it almost feels like I’m looking at a fictional nightmare. When it finally sets in that these pictures are actual events that occurred and are not just some horror in a fantasy setting I can’t even comprehend my emotions anymore. To see these people just like me and everyone else I know tortured, humiliated, and murdered breaks my heart in so many different ways. One image that really resonated with me led me to google search Jesse Washington. Reading the background behind his lynching and what occurred during his lynching is just unfathomable. They literally sold his charred body parts on the street as trophies or souvenirs. What kind of barbaric
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