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[|"The Lynching"] by [|Claude McKay] Shomari

[|THE LYNCHING](an excerpt) media type="file" key="the lynching.mp3" IS spirit is smoke ascended to high heaven. His father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him to his bosom once again; The awful sin remained still unforgiven......
 * // by: [|Claude McKay] (1890-1948) //**

"[|The Lynching]" by [|Claude McKay] was first published in 1920. This poem refers back to a time period in American history, (to be precise much of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970), when [|racial segregation] was still at large and mobs of white prejudice people, mostly males, would happen upon either an individual or a group of [|African-Americans] and kill them by hanging and/or burning.

Analysis: "The Lynching". The very title itself gives off a measure of power. I believe Claude McKay wrote this poem to scream out his hatred toward the senseless murders of the African-American people. I believe McKay wrote this poem asking the question why? Why do we allow this evident act of racial hatred to go on? Why do we allow the purest of souls to fly burnt up to heaven but allow the infected and diseased to stay on and defile?

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