Black Bodies Politic in Paris, Texas

Texas Dragging Death May Have Been a Racially Motivated Crime
Associated Press

In a gruesome case with powerful echoes of the dragging death of James Byrd a decade ago, a black man was killed underneath a pickup truck in East Texas and two white men have been charged with murder. Paris is the same Texas town in which a black girl was sentenced to up to seven years in a juvenile prison for shoving a teacher’s aide at school. That same judge sentenced a white girl to probation for burning down her parents’ house.

James Byrd Jr. Ten Years After His Lynching

While some residents want to move on and erase the scar left by the heinous, racial attack, his family works to keep the black man’s memory alive. Three white men used a chain to tie James Byrd Jr.’s ankles to a truck’s rear bumper, zigzagging him for 3.08 miles.

10 years later, Byrd tragedy still haunts Jasper