Lynching Maps - Part 2

 Since it is now United States government policy to erase Black History and ignore Black History Month and further since it is also their policy to not want to tell stories that make Americans feel bad about their county, I will do my little bit to refute that.

To clear up the “Part 2” bit, Part 1 was from a 2021 blog post on the same subject, featuring a NAACP map produced 100 years earlier. 

A modern mapping update was done by the Equal Justice Institute, their stated goal being to “change the narrative about race in America in order to advance our collective goal of equal justice for all.“

This map covers the period between the Civil War and World War II when over 4,000 African Americans were lynched. This figure does not account for the many unreported lynchings and unknown victims. The patterns between the two maps largely tell the same story though the modern map gives you a more granular picture by breaking them down by county. For example, Almost all of the lynchings in Texas took place in the eastern third of the state-of course most of the population lives in those areas.

The white dots can be clicked for featured video stories.

You can click on any state and see how many lynching were reported statewide and by county. Georgia had 599 reported lynchings in this time period.

Sorry if I made anyone feel bad about their county.

Cortina Panorama

When I first watched the television coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics I thought I saw some pretty impressive map graphics but a long online search for them has come up short. However, I did find this very nice map of the Cortina area.

The map is from Cormar Panoramic Maps, a company based in Bolzano, Italy not far from Cortina. This year’s Olympics are very spread out and only a few events are being held in Cortina. Those include curling, women’s alpine skiing, bobsled and luge, all of these in the immediate vicinity of the town.

The Ossario in the bottom left above is a World War I monument. 

There’s a lot of nice looking ski areas that from what I can tell are not being used in these Olympics at all. If you’re staying there to watch curling you’ll have plenty of access to ski areas.

Here is a map from the IOC, via TrueNorth, a Canadian Sports blog, showing just how spread out these Olympics are. For context the distance between Milano and Venezia across the bottom of the map is 267 kilometers (166 miles). 

 

 

 

 

The U.S. Master Plan for Gaza.

At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, real estate developer Jared Kushner unveiled the administration’s plans for Gaza.

This map is from Al Jazeera though it’s unclear if they’re showing a direct copy of it. It’s a little hard to take seriously a brightly colored map that appears to show a bunch of giant three mile long football fields supposedly representing residential areas. Of course, no Palestinians were consulted and it doesn’t appear that the Israelis were either. Like the massive grid pattern overlaid on most of the United States in the 18th and 19th Centuries because “nobody lives there”, this plan presumes to build a riviera of glass towers and marinas, but not housing over existing populations. As quoted by architecture professor Ali A Alraouf - “Technically, this creates gated communities designed for a specific economic class, rather than an organic city fabric that serves the local population.” “This is real estate fantasy rather than urban planning,” he argues.

An image was created for the article superimposing the current population on top of this plan to show what and who would need to be removed for this plan to work.