Becky

“(The U.S. Congress didn’t pass a federal anti-lynching law until 2022, despite more than two hundred attempts over more than a hundred years.)”
― Dashka Slater, Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

“noose is just a rope with a knot that can be tightened. But in America it’s a rope that tells a story. The story is about lynching—the practice of mob murder, usually by hanging but also by burning, shooting, drowning, beating, or being”
― Dashka Slater, Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

“Well . . .” she said, stumbling over the obvious, “Bex always has been kind of rules-optional.”
― Ally Carter, I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“On the average, a black man, woman or child was murdered nearly once a week, every week, between 1882 and 1930 by a hate-driven white mob,” sociologists Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck write in A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930.”
― Dashka Slater, Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed