In 1979 Muslim fundamentalists overthrew the secular monarchy of Iran and the new Theocrats immediately began dehumanizing and subjugating women. I hope anyone in the USA who reads this is taking notes because it might be happening here in 2025.

That had to be so very difficult.

aww

I can't even begin to imagine his pain.

This is literally what flipped the South from Dixicrats to Republicans. Never forget that the GOP was (and still is) for apartheid.

One of the most hauntingly powerful photos I’ve ever seen regarding slavery.

I will never understand this level of evil a hatred. 😢

Whoever did this was pure evil.

Anyone who says slavery was not that bad (looking at you Kanye, who believes slavery was a choice) and the idiot that posted on social media way more people died in 9/11 than in slavery, should be forced to take an awareness class that presents photos like these

His scars healed into huge keloids. Very itchy and painful to treat

Anyone who can look at this and attempt to propose slavery wasn't beyond horrible is themselves horrible - Ron Desantis, I'm talking about you.

Just terrible. Slight thankfulness Gordon lived long enough to be a "former"slave. "Slight" bc it still does not make up for the horror of this picture and what he and many others experienced. I hope you ended up having the happiest life, Gordon.

Speechless

Think of this when teachers try to tell you slaves were happy.

Horrifying and heartbreaking…

An example of the brutality humans are capable of for their own pleasue

I cannot fathom what this man possibly could have done to warrant such barbarous punishment!?!

Southern states still want to do this to anyone not white or Christian. Evil!!!

The cruelty of mankind.

One the MAGA virus doesn't want talked about in schools, because it might upset their white students.

That poor man, especially as the physical scars only show half of the story, it's an upsetting picture to look at, however, for me personally, it's the first time I've seen a picture even remotely close to showing the horrors....

Horrific... scar upon scar...

I managed to get a scab across my back about the width of one whip strike. It's awful. You can't sit comfortably anywhere and forget about good sleep. Every breath pulls on the wound. I can't imagine living with what this man endured or not spending every last breath trying to kill the people responsible.

That should never happen, shame of those who done this

This is not a picture that will change my view. Instead, it reassures my view of "slavery is bad, torture is bad, never treat people as lesser than you even if you don't agree with their lifestyle and choices"

Only humans have the capacity for cruelty.

The lasting evidence of things like this and those girls trying to go to school amidst jeering, hateful crowds of people, are why Republicans don't want real history taught in schools. Some of the hateful people trying to keep those girls from going to school are still alive. Can't have the family seeing Grandma, Grandad and possibly their own parents behaving like this. Can't have the children asking questions about whether their family owned slaves

I hope his next life is much better than this one, and those who did this to him pay in their next life.

"Oh Sethe, you have a cherry tree growing on your back." (Toni Morrison, Beloved) (I don't remember the correct wording...)

How can people do that so wicked

Shameful. The people who did this will pay in the afterlife, to be sure. And that's eternal, never ending.

I will never ever understand how humans could do this to other humans! God help us!!

That is truly horrific. May the perpetrator/s ROT IN HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY.

Shame to those people who thought this was acceptable to any human being . Good they too are now all dead.