White authorities ignored violence against Black men in the Jim Crow South

Evidence

My forehead was sweating ’cause I started thinking about the time my cousin got run over by a white woman for smiling at her at a stop sign and she waited for him to step off the curb and take a few steps which was when she pressed on the gas, hit him hard enough we heard his ankle crack. When we told the police and gave them her license plate number, they didn’t even bother to write it down. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 993

Categorization

• XREF: Police refusal to record Black victims echoes the pattern of legal abandonment that the book argues runs from slavery into modern policing. — connects to: Almost no white rioters against Blacks faced punishment — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 492; Top officials treated black racial-identity activism as threatening while ignoring white supremacists — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 207