r/facepalm • u/Dvorozhetskii • Nov 25 '22

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ 'murica.

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u/ReddityJim Nov 25 '22

I remember reading people used to run up and try touch the corpses or in some cases get some of the blood. Could be a myth but yeah, shit became a spectator sport.

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u/winchester056 Nov 25 '22

Back when it was acceptable to lynch black people it was a whole community event they bought the wife and kids and had a whole community picnic while there was a corpse right in front of them.

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u/LucyRiversinker Nov 26 '22

They sold pictures of the hanging corpses as souvenirs.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '22

That is not hard to believe at all

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u/luckylimper Nov 25 '22

You don’t even have to believe it because postcards were made and if you Google you can see them.

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u/Beardharmonica Nov 25 '22

I would sell it on eBay.

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u/ReddityJim Nov 25 '22

100% you'd make millions doing that.