Virginia Christian Deserved to Die Too

You get your facts from Wikipedia which has the wrong age of Ida. All other sources put her at the age of 51. And I am citing official sources of what was presented as evidence. So don’t be stupid, of course I wasn’t there, but then again, neither were the jurors who sentenced this young black teenager to death. If anyone needs to growup, it is probably you.

Beth, thanks for commenting. I’m puzzled why you would think that an American born black girl wouldn’t ‘stand a chance’ in the American justice system in 1912. You weren’t there. You are judging an entire society and calling them racist and incapable of looking at evidence of a heinous crime because the woman was black. So who’s the racist here? You, who wants to discard known facts in a case because you presume that a white woman in 1912 was a racist who beat a maid? Or the jury, who carefully considered the evidence, including a confession, who had to write a wrong, regardless the color of the villain’s skin?

Shubaby,
You can’t rely on Wikipedia to get the facts correct. Especially about a lynch mob, which is absolutely false. Just as they get the age wrong, they got a lot of the rest of the story incorrect as well.

Beth,
You have to cite some sources to claim that Belote “beat on a child everyday.” And you seem to imply that Belote’s murder was justified and you are the one implying that it was racially motivated. None of the facts I have read say any of the sort.

Times were different in that many teenagers worked as domestic labor. And the woman was indeed infirm according to the facts of the case. If the woman was a racist as you imply, don’t you think she would have hired a white person to assist her?

The governor of the State of Virginia Gov. William Hodges Mann called the murder “among the most barbarous and inhuman ever committed in this state.”

This had nothing to do with race, and everything to do with a vicious unwarranted murder of a disabled woman. That is the real history.

Beth, you said that “Whether she was guilty or not, Virginia Christian (an African “American” maid) DIDN’T STAND A CHANCE.” You meant that she would have been unfairly prosecuted and executed solely on the basis of her skin color, and you know that’s what you meant.

I call them facts because that is what it is. In 1912 they had newspapers and court records, and in those documents are where I got my facts. If you think that “everybody knows” that in 1912 the justice system was in favor of “good ol all american” then you are wrong and you certainly don’t speak for the rest of us.

Christian wasn’t murdered either, Beth. She was executed in accordance with state and federal law. There was nothing at all racist about the crime, nor the execution despite how desperately your liberal values scream in your head that it should have been.

Taylor, surely you can’t be this dumb. You are definitely a liberal because you think blacks are only good for slave labor and any job the government can hand to them.

Fact is lots of young women, black and white, were maids in households from the age 12 and up during this time. This was not a new career for Christian.

Cotton fields were no longer worked by hand. Ever hear of the Cotton Gin?

In 1912, the terror arm of the Democrat Party, called the Ku Klux Klan, prevented many whites from hiring blacks in the south. That a white woman hired a black woman to be a paid servant was actually very progressive of Ida Belote. And Virginia Christian repaid Belote’s kindness and generosity by killing her and stealing from her.

Why do you hate America? Because we give fair trials and punish the guilty?

Wow, you go around racebaiting the internet for lulz or what Sasha? You are the racist here. If you don’t think black people can get a fair trial in the United States, that makes you racist. Skin color only matters to racists and you seem to view the world in black and white.

You should try to read the history of the trial you simpleton. Virginia Christian was given an extremely fair trial.