# @trayfour on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJFnov0Sr5x
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34596797-trayfour-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-04-30T22:39:48.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ray Allen (@trayfour) — https://gondola.cc/trayfour

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According to Tuskegee University, more than 4,700 people were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. These were not isolated acts of violence, but deliberate acts of racial terror intended to maintain white supremacy and instill fear in Black communities. Not a single one of the perpetrators was ever brought to justice. Not one family of a lynching victim received justice, acknowledgment, or compensation for the loss of their loved one.
Even more disturbing, it wasn’t until 2022 that lynching was finally recognized as a federal hate crime—over half a century after the last recorded lynchings and more than a century after this violence became a public crisis. That delay speaks volumes about whose pain this country has historically valued—and whose it has ignored.
History is not just about dates and names in a textbook; it is about truth. And truth—no matter how uncomfortable—is necessary for growth. Erasing history, removing it from museums, banning it from classrooms, or rewriting it to make people feel “comfortable” only ensures that the ugliest parts of our past will resurface again. We must teach the truth so that we are never again complicit in the lie.
Thank you, realdlhughley, for having the courage to be unapologetic in writing this book, and for continuing to speak hard truths to a society that too often refuses to listen. It takes bravery to shine light into the darkness—but that’s exactly what this moment demands.
It is long past time for America to confront the systems that have upheld white supremacy and allowed this kind of violence, erasure, and inequality to persist. Surrendering white supremacy doesn’t mean losing anything—it means gaining humanity. We are not asking for superiority. We are demanding equality. We are all equal. It’s time our systems, our schools, and our society reflected that truth. #blackhistoryisamericanhistory #leaveourmuseumalone #educatedontdiscriminate

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educatedontdiscriminate, blackhistoryisamericanhistory, leaveourmuseumalone

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