Revision of Jube Benson Summary

In "The Lynching of Jube Benson", a story about racial crime, Jube is lynched after being accused falsely of rape. Not only it happened, for this case, but for thousands of innocent African American slaves who were found guilty without proof. due to racial hate. And, majority of these crimes, were caused by white people, but because they felt "superior", it was a norm that was followed for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, African Americans had no say in it.
This story made me feel that although this country is represented as the land of the free, many sufferings had to occur in order to proof that this is what this country offers. Just because you are a certain color, does not mean any race is superior or better. We are all humans, and as human rights,  no human should be higher than another.
I still feel that in many cases today, racial, unjustified crimes still exist. Not only white to blacks, but communities where certain races feel higher than another.

The Lynching of Jube Benson

For this week in class, we read the story "the Lynching of Jube Benson". This story was about a doctor telling his friend how he had seen a lynching in person. He starts by talking about Jube, an honest servant who served a family and one day, their daughter, Annie, was found raped and murdered and all she said was "That black...", and without finishing died in the doctors arms. Before anyone knew who it was, everybody started yelling that it was Jube, so they went out to the woods to find him. When they found him, he asked the doctor to help him, but the doctor, who was friend, didn't believe him and the angry mob took them to where Annie's dead body was. He pleaded that it wasn't him but they didn't believe him. When they had him hung already, before to cut the rope, his brother comes in yelling that they found the real rapist. But by the time they got there, someone had cut the rope and Jube was dead. Turns out, it was a white guy, Tom Skinner, who had covered himself up in mud, to disguise himself as a negro. The doctor, when to examine Annie's fingernails found white skin and brown hair of a white person. He then realized Jube was killed innocently.

This short story relates to hundreds of people that this happened to. Many African Americans were killed or punished for crimes they didn't do. They were almost always falsely accused and no one ever had evidence to what they did. A lot of white men would take mud and cover themselves up to look like a "negro", so they wouldn't punish them.