Blog Assignment Number Three

        This week in class we read the short and unfortunate story called The Lynching of Jube Benson. In this story a faithful black servant to a white family is wrongfully accused of a crime he didn't commit. Jube Benson is accused of murdering his boss' daughter, Annie, whom he had cared and looked after for dearly. The only piece of evidence that they linked to Jube was the fact that Annie's last word was the word black when she was found. With a snippet of evidence and no trial given, Jube was lynched for the death of little Annie. Shortly after, it was discovered that Jube was innocent and a man by the name of Tom Skinner was the real murderer. The real meaning depicted behind this story is the aspect of racial profiling. It just shows us that although Jube was a loyal servant to the family he worked for, he was still wrongly blamed for something for horrid because at the end of the day he was a black man and racism was at an all time high in this time period ,especially during slavery. The racial violence that Dunbar tries to get across to his audience through this story is the sad example of what happened to many blacks due to their complexion and what still occurs till this day. For example, the injustice that happened to a young man named Trayvon Martin not too long ago. A young African American 17 year old boy was shot in the chest because he looked suspect, according to his shooter. Apparently wearing a hood and being of a darker complexion fits the description of looking suspect. That type of racial profiling isn't a thing of the past, but something that we are still familiar with today and it's really disappointing that people still have this mindset.