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Registration-required, but after the MT 3.0 thing I have zero patience for overprivileged geek whining, so shut the fuck up: Chicago Tribune | Prison photos evoke ghoulish memories:

When Monique Guillory saw photographs of Iraqi detainees being tortured in a Baghdad prison, it was the smiles on the faces of American soldiers that haunted her.

"They don't understand how the outside world will perceive them because they're in their own culture," she said.

As director of "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America," an exhibit at Jackson State University in Mississippi, Guillory has seen those smiles before.

They are the expressions of grinning, laughing whites milling around bodies of African-American men, whose dangling torsos and charred remains serve as ghoulish centerpieces for gatherings that otherwise look as innocent as a community fair.

"When people look at the pictures and they see all those faces next to the grisly horror, you always ask yourself: How can they be happy at a time like this?" she said.

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