Tuesday, September 21, 2021

What is "Lash"?

 I've been speculating a fair amount recently about the violence in the streets, the war in the middle east, and - obviously - my music.

In the course of my speculation I recalled a word called "Lash".

It's no coincidence that lashings were used for ages not only on slaves, but early Christians - some of them even lashed themselves!

What is a "Lash"?

Well I'm reminded of "Backlash"

"Whitelash"

"Blacklash"

etc.

It was a term put into verbiage by MLK. JR.,

in what he called "Whitelash",

where a white person commits a revenge killing for retribution for some perceived injustice.

All I have to say is this,

Let me be a whipping boy~

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