An 8-foot-tall whipping post has been removed from a Delaware county courthouse square after activists said the post was a reminder of racial discrimination.
The post outside the Sussex County Courthouse in Georgetown was removed Wednesday after an hour-and-a-half of excavation and put in storage with other historical artifacts, news outlets reported. The Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs said the post was used to bind and whip people publicly for committing crimes up until 1952.
However, Black people were disproportionately punished, according to the historical group. A book published in 1947 by Robert Caldwell, a former sociology professor in the state, said more than 60% of those beaten between 1900 and 1945 were Black, The Delaware News Journal reported. At that time, Black people made up less than 20% of Delaware’s population.
Historical and Cultural Affairs Director Tim Slavin said the post was a “cold deadpan display” that didn’t “adequately account for the traumatic legacy it represents, and that still reverberates among communities of color in our state.”
Let flowers grow in this place.
what high-profile public figure from delaware has had the last, oh, 40 years to push for its removal, but apparently didn't? hmmm.....let's see.....who.....could....that.....be.......
The Allman Brothers and Frank Zappa wouldn't approve!
That’s something that should’ve stayed so as not to suggest that period in history never happened?
Why the F$K would you even keep something like this up?
What a grisly reminder. . .
So some overpaid genius thought in a house paid for by Tax Payers this was a good idea to keep around. I have little sympathy for the Jim Crowe sympathizers our there with this level of disrespect towards Blacks with this systemic piece of history.
Can I just ask why the hell this was up in the first place
Whipping post!
Shouldn’t even have been there to begin with
Wouldn’t you want to preserve that history so people know about it?
Why wasn't this removed a LONG time ago?
A WHIPPING post!?!? Still publicly displayed?!?
Should be Used to Start a Barnfire!!!!!
What we are seeing is a generation that has zero coping skills & a complete intolerance for anything they dont like or understand. They stomp their feet like children screaming & making demands. Unfortunately we are acting like the bad parent & indulging them
...the fuck
Yes
WHY was it still there!?
Pretending the world didn't start in April of 2020 is racist.
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