The distance over time essay basically highlights Eula's dislike for telephone poles not for a technological purpose, but for the simple reason that telephone poles, amongst many other things, were a symbol for lynching. There was a passage in the essay that really highlighted where and how these poor black men were lynched. They were lynched for fighting with white men, unpopularity, for peeping in a window, and dealings with white women. Reading this passage, I felt horrified and so sad for those black men who were set on fire, beaten, shot, and hung from these telephone poles as a symbol for freedom. This thought to me is barbaric and just terrible. People watched these instances happen and did nothing but watch. The fact that there were so many efforts made to congress to stop lynching and was just pushed a side infuriates me even more. How could Congress continue to ignore these peoples cries and just let it continue to happen? It makes no sense to me at all, I'm just glad that issues like that are now illegal. I guess if someone was to argue this they would have to be racist and say that these people deserved what they got and favor lynching and which to them I would say imagine that being you and you were beaten, hung, and set on fire for the whole world to see, how would you feel? I'm sure they'd be against it then. When I first starting reading this essay, I didn't expect it to go where it went but I'm glad it did because it should have opened any of her readers eyes as to the truth of what telephone poles can represent or at least back then.