Day 45 – Good Friday

“’A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY’

These words were stitched onto a flag that flew outside the Manhattan headquarters of the NAACP between 1920 and 1938. When a Black person was lynched, the flag was raised the following day…

You should understand that what happened to Jesus was a lynching.

…Do not look away and do not rush to redeem this violence.
A MAN WAS LYNCHED TODAY.

Again and again we find ourselves… here, where even Jesus is groping for God.”

— Rev. T. Denise Anderson
Commentary on John 19:1-30 for @sanctifiedart
Image from the Library of Congress

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