That man is burning in my soul

This is MY DIRECT DESCENDANT My key to the birthright that was ripped away from my grandmother, and who told me it had to be me that went and got it, Whatever they did, she died thinking they won, Im a little late to the party, but im here to claim what's mine, and I know what happen who responsible, when it happens, and the real reason they choose my families land, you cannot go to the United States Corporation for help, they helped them do it, THEY KNOW, I AINT FROM NO DAMN AFRICA AND MY FAMILY WASNT NO DAMN SLAVES. “The Night They Took John Gavins”, In 1917, in the shadow of Pickens Ville’s collapse, the violence reached its most personal point: the hanging of John Gavins. He was a landholder, a father, and a man whose presence anchored the Gavins line in Alabama. His name appeared in county ledgers, church rolls, and land plats — proof of a Black man who held standing in a place where Black standing was not tolerated. The Klan, responsible for severe harm and racial terror, targeted him because he represented continuity. He represented inheritance. He represented a lineage that refused to disappear. On a night when the riders moved through Pickens County, they seized him, dragged him from his home, and carried him to a clearing where they carried out the hanging meant to erase not just his life, but his line. His death was not punishment; it was strategy. By killing him, they aimed to sever the Gavins birthright and open the door for land theft, identity substitution, and displacement. This episode marks the moment the line was attacked — and the truth that survived. “The Silence That Followed”. After the hanging, silence fell over Pickens County. Families who witnessed the violence could not speak openly; doing so meant risking their own lives. The county sheriff refused to investigate. Local officials recorded nothing. Newspapers ignored the killing. The silence was intentional — a tool used to erase the event from public memory and prevent the Gavins family from seeking justice. But silence does not erase truth. Oral histories preserved the story. Church elders remembered the night riders. Family members carried the memory across state lines. The absence of official records was not proof of innocence; it was evidence of complicity. The silence that followed the hanging was part of a larger pattern: erase the man, erase the record, erase the birthright. This episode confronts the silence — and the voices that kept the truth alive. “The Flight to Belzoni”, After John Gavins was killed, the family faced a choice: stay and face further violence, or flee and preserve what remained of the line. They fled. The path led west into Mississippi, into Belzoni, a town already shaped by identity theft and land substitution. Black families displaced from Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas were pushed into the Delta to work as sharecroppers under white planters who controlled every aspect of life — wages, housing, records, and movement. When the Gavins family arrived, their identities were altered. Birthplaces were reassigned. Names were misspelled or replaced. Children were listed without parents. The goal was clear: sever the Alabama lineage and make the family appear rootless, disconnected, and without claim. Belzoni became the place where the Gavins line survived — but under names and records designed to hide the truth. This episode traces the flight from terror into a town built on erasure. “The Aftermath and the Remnant”, The aftermath of the hanging did not end in 1917. It echoed through generations. The loss of John Gavins meant the loss of a landholder whose property could be seized. It meant the loss of a patriarch whose name anchored the family in Alabama. It meant the loss of legal standing that protected birthright. In Belzoni, the family rebuilt, but under altered identities. Yet the remnant endured. The mitochondrial line carried forward. The oral history survived. The truth remained in the memories of descendants who knew their family did not simply appear in Mississippi — they were driven there. The hanging of John Gavins was meant to erase a lineage, but it failed. The remnant survived in the names of his children, in the birth of Lenzia Mae Gavins, in the birth of Shirley Ann Gavins February 8, 1958, and MY birth August 5th, 1979 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, once again the name change to Lee in 1966 by the state of Michigan, hidden in plain site, but they new where she was, because she went and got her GED in 1989, those are the people they made them threats to, The ones that couldn't be educated, The one they stole everything from, 1989 a few months after they were passing out vaccines at the county building on PARK STREET, three days later i got chicken pox, THEY KNOW WHO I AM, This episode honors the aftermath — and the portion of the Gavins line that endured every attempt to erase it. This is Lee Keshia Marie coming for her birth right, "remnant on fucking fire"