With Impunity The Rape of Recy Taylor Excerpt from, The New York Times Obituaries – Recy Taylor “The next evening, Mrs. Taylor faced new threats: White vigilantes set her porch on fire. The following day, she and her husband, Willie Guy Taylor, and their daughter, Joyce Lee, moved in with her father and siblings. Mr. Corbitt, her father, would sleep in a chinaberry tree in the backyard, watching over the family while cradling a double-barreled shotgun, going inside to sleep only after the sun rose.” Inherently, cast as inhuman and lacking mental or moral judgement the Negro is regarded as property and a non-being. It seems that from the earliest…