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Entry: Sept. 11, 2001: Adrift Among the Dead Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/sept_11_2001_adrift_among_the_dead#4972 Post contents: "To propose also the goodness of people means that you have never heard of lynch mobs....Also that you do not know what populist nationalism is, much less of how dangerous." Suddenly I'm reminded of the lynching of Zacharia Walker in Coatesville, Pennsylvania - in the Philadelphia suburban county of Chester (not too far from the Main Line) - in 1911. Mind you, this was not in Dixie; this was above the Mason-Dixon Line. From the New York Tribune, August 14 1911: "The crowd, which had increased in number to more than five thousand men and boys, followed after, yelling, screaming and gesticulating, all shouting in unison: "Lynch him! Lynch him!"...Aimlessly the crowd went, still shouting and yelling, all evidently not caring where they went or how far, but only bent upon continuing the negro's torture as long as possible...As if by magic, a pile of fence rails and lumber of all varieties, hastily collected from farm buildings, sheds and outhouses on the way, had been formed, and almost before the majority of the mob knew what was happening a match was applied and a sheet of flame shot up from the dried wood....With a scream Walker fell [1|2] on the flames, and, despite his injury and bandages and chains, fought frantically to break his bonds and escape the fire that was now raging about him on all sides. He begged and raised his hands to the skies, but the mob was obdurate....Walker's efforts to escape, however, were obstructed by the inner ring of men and boys who stood about the bonfire. Not to be deprived of their vengeance--they still were armed with fence rails and sticks and all manner of farm implements, pitchforks and scythes and poles--they belabored the man and pushed him back into the flames. Once the negro tried to crawl out when the bed was burned away from his chains, but he was pushed back into the fire. A second time he tried, and a second time he was pushed back. A third time he seemed to summon all his energy in a last effort for life, and it seemed that he was about to succeed, but the men with the fence rails were watching that there should be no escape, and they ruthlessly thrust the screaming and fighting negro back into his funeral pyre." http://www.wam.umd.edu/~gaines/nytrib.html Another horrified (White) witness saw the crowd later kicking the lynched man's skull through the streets. Virtually everyone in the mob were "Christian" churchgoers. Sent at: 2008 10 14