The Noose Was the Law is a spoken word performance exposing how, after slavery ended, white supremacy reinvented itself through terror backed by silence. Lynchings were not random acts of violence — they were public executions used to enforce racial control, often with the quiet approval of courts, sheriffs, and politicians.
Black men, women, and children were hanged from trees, mutilated, and displayed as warnings. Crowds gathered, postcards were printed, and the message was clear: the law may have changed, but the rope was still in power. Justice turned its back, and the noose became the judge, jury, and executioner.
This performance forces us to confront the truth: lynching was not outside the law — it was the law in practice. Fear was the statute, and silence was the enforcement.
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