The Mob Violence
Popular church orator, Velley Loyn Lester, also known as “Mississippi Lester”, describes his experience of the mob violence. Printed in 1919.
“Jesus said for us to love one another, for you will have to come unto judgment, only for yourself, so how can you keep from loving the white man of your own Sunny South and of the far North, East and West, the white man sailed upon the trackless blue sea to the jungles of Africa at the risk of his own life, found you perfectly wild and clothed in ignorance, not even knowing of a true and living God. So he took you up in filth and in chains brought you from that dark continent into this world of light and told you of the true and living God, for many years. After keeping you for many years in slavery he saw that was not pleasing in God’s sight to hold you as such; then the Civil Rights Bill was passed, which caused many to die upon the battlefields, and culminated into the greatest emancipation of the world. Then again think what a true friend the white man has been to us, for which the intelligent Negroes thank him for such favors.”