Bob Hudson was doing what had to be done: protecting his wife. But he could've never imagined it would've ended like this.
A white man sexually assaulted her! He violated Hudson's wife in the worst way and was arrested and fined on battery and assault charges. What happened next is as evil as it gets.
In retaliation, ten cowardly, masked white men drug Mrs. Hudson from her home and beat her bloody. When Bob Hudson ran up on them to defend his beloved, they pulled the trigger on his life.
White supremacy has always violated Black women's bodies without much consequence, and the most absurd accusations against our men by white women almost always turn fatal.
Nearly one in four Black men lynched between 1877 to 1945 were accused of improper contact with a white woman.
The Hudsons didn't deserve this terror – none of us do - but white supremacy always has inflicted pain on our people. That's why we must continue building our own of everything. A world outside THIS system is liberation.