Talk:Park Trammell

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Sanitisation[edit]

I'm just curious. The article on the Rosewood massacre contains this sentence:

"While Trammell was state attorney general, none of the 29 lynchings committed during his term were prosecuted; neither were the 21 that occurred while he was governor."

And yet the article on his life mentions none of this. All we get is the "official version" which makes him sound like a respectable, clean-living, hard-working American.

I'm aware that people may have had different standards in those days, and views like those of Trammell were probably not far off community norms, but the summation of a man's life should surely include some mention of what he actually did.

Just a question. I'm not going to modify the article myself. It's just that I've found this kind of phenomenon at other places on Wikipedia, too. The past injustices of history painted as anonymous forces when there were actually individuals in authority perpetrating those injustices, but whose biographies come up smelling of roses.

Bathrobe (talk) 00:43, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I came here for the exact same reason. Considering it is 4 years later, I don't think there will be any changes. Which is a shame. I tried a (very quick) search to see any records about the claim, in which I would add it myself. But all I found was a newspaper article at the time that said he was opposed to an anti-lynch bill. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19220530&id=vBJPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=00wDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6265,4624616 208.105.125.98 (talk) 17:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]