and hoods.
Florida is an enlightened place to live in. Black Lives Matter. #MeToo.
We have made mistakes but we strive to acknowledge them and change for the better.
We have great institutions of higher learning. Superior medical and scientific research facilities.
Floridians enjoy the outdoors as well. Hiking, biking, sailing, fishing, SCUBA diving and boating of all sorts.
AND THEN WE HAVE THIS
So let's play a little game: Where is this picture currently hanging?
A) A Dixie-Cafe in Pensacola?
B) The Klan Museum at the Florida-Georgia border?
C) Governor DeSantis private dinning room (but it's being taken down because of the Governor's well known aversion to masks)
D) The lobby of the Circuit Court in Baker County, Macclenny, Florida.
It's a chilling picture. It is frightening on many levels. The bird seems almost demonic. And then there are three klansmen on horseback. They aren't riding to the rescue of anyone. There is no good with a pack of klansmen on the move. The whole picture is nightmarish in context and message.
And if you didn't already guess, the picture is hanging in the Baker County Courthouse, which is another reason to never go there.
Practice tip- avoid taking cases as Miami lawyers in Macclenny, Florida. If you are a minority or Jewish....you can figure out the rest.
FACDL Florida is asking to remove the painting. We will be following this issue and we promise to post the pictures and contact information of any Macclenny yahoos who defend the displaying of that nightmarish, racist glorifying picture.
12 comments:
"Florida is an enlightened place to live in."
Biggest lie ever told on this blog.
Gotta love (hate) the painters explanation:
"Lawlessness among ex-slaves and troublesome whites was the rule of the day. No relief was given by the carpetbag and scalawag government or by the Union troops. The result was the emergence of secret societies claiming to bring law and order to the county. One of these groups was the Ku Klux Klan, an organization that sometimes took vigilante justice to extremes but was sometimes the only control the county knew over those outside the law. The Klan faded from view at the end of Reconstruction. It had minor comebacks in the 1920’s and mid 1950’s. Since then it has become the subject of legend rather than a cause of fear."
4:47 it is called sarcasm. The Humor is subtle. It takes intelligence to get it. No surprise you didn't. Perhaps the Dairy Queen blog or Dennys blog on the their grand slam breakfast is more your style.
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is there a state filled with more stupid people than florida?
Please keep us informed on this. I'm out of town but definitely want to be a part of any effort to get this taken down.
A couple of points on the KKK and the painting. The KKK predated the Civil War. If anyone has read Diary Of A Slave Girl, she describes gangs of marauders on horseback who wantonly destroyed slave homes and property. This was done out of fear that some slaveowners, to increase efficiency, allowed their slaves to accumulate small amounts of property. It was a threat to the working class whites who feared their jobs were being threatened. Clarence Thomas, in of one of gun rights cases, wrote extensively about this form of terrorism and why the recently freed slaves needed weapons to protect themselves. Second, the tree in the picture is a nice touch (that's sarcasm 4:47). Reminds me of Strange Fruit, the Billie Holiday classic about a lynching.
This shows the courage that Phil Hubbart and the late great trial lawyer, Irwin "sonny" Block demonstrated in trying the Pitts-Lee case in the Panhandle in the 70's.
Don't worry, the FACDL doesnt want to start vetting random courthouse art, it only wants to vet BAD art. It's not interested in banning books, either. Just the bad books.
And once its Miami leadership succeeds at forced removal of that dumb-ass painting, residents of these other counties will welcome Miami lawyers as liberators.
Hearts and minds.
After all, look at the job Miamians are doing with crime, policing, public health, education, race relations. Why dont the rest of these inbred, backwards, hillbilly Floridians just do as we do? Anyway, next time we pass over on the direct flight to La Guardia, we can feel much better that the dumbass painting is gone.
Baker County, you're welcome!
Sorry this is off topic. It's Friday night. But first, 3:42 is an idiot. Just sayin...
OK my BF and I have a great relationship but we are fighting about this like Fauci and Trump-
On Apollo 13, when pilot Ken Mattingly tested positive for the measles, whose decision was it to scrub him from the mission- commander Jim Lovell or head of flight crews Astronaut and originally Mercury Seven member Deke Slayton?
I say it was Deke's and he keeps yelling at me I don't know anything about a time I wasn't alive (I am a lot younger than him) and it was Lovell's. We both are lawyers and love the blog and agree to abide by your decision.
10:49
Did Hubbart and Block try the original Pitts-Lee murder case or the re-trial on newly discovered evidence?
Pitts & Lee were eventually exonerated after being on death row for over 12 years. Interesting case. The late, great Warren Holmes was the one to bring evidence of their innocence to light. Holmes and Lee remained friends and I was honored to be invited to have lunch with them at Bob's Burgers in the Gables. Lee told me about having a pet cockroach when he was on death row and how bad he felt when he let it go and watched it crawl out of his cell. He said he loved the companionship it provided but didn't feel right about holding it hostage.
The bird in the painting is another nice touch. It's a pileated woodpecker. There are a couple of web sites saying that Carl Jung, the psychoanalyst, wrote the woodpecker making it's home in a tree is a symbol of a fierce determination to return and protect that which is sacred. (I can't take the time to trace this back to the original source but if true, explains why the bird is so prominent in the painting.)
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