Who Built the Gallows on J-6?
Videos show it under construction, but still no arrests after almost four years
Thus in the United States paradigmatically there is a long history of vigilantism and lynching at which white officialdom basically connived, inasmuch as hardly anybody was ever punished, though the perpetrators were well known and on occasion photographs were even available. Some lynchings were advertised days in advance, and hundreds or thousands of people gathered from surrounding districts.
–Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract, p. 86, 1997
Because they think they are white, they do not dare confront the ravage and the lie of their history.
— James Baldwin, “On Being White and Other Lies,” p. 180, 1998
Now comes actual video of the people who built and erected the hangman’s gallows and noose on the US Capitol’s front lawn on January 6, 2021. According to CBS News, these people were caught on several of the many hidden and not-so-hidden video cameras as they scurried like rats through downtown Dee Cee and across the Capitol grounds in the predawn hours of that day. Interestingly, CBS obtained these videos from a report issued by a GOP-led US House subcommittee. At this writing, that report notes that the gallows construction crew’s identities — still —…
