Was there actual cases of lynchings in the United States where a fork was stuck in someones butt?

Factual Questions
1

Yes, this is directly inspired by the now decade old Michael Richards racist rant at a nightclub.

At one point he tells the two black hecklers

50 years ago you would have been hung upside down with a fork up your ass.”

The fork in the ass comment is what puzzles me, I always assumed it was just Richard’s bizarre way of thinking of a truly horrible situation and including a random element into it to make it “funny”, that or just straight up a completely hateful non-sequitur. However reading up on contemporary news reports of the incident (part of some research I was doing) apparently some African-American activists claimed this actually happened in the South during some lynchings, how they would stick forks or other things up people’s asses while lynching them to add insult to injury. Trying to look this up through Google however all just points back to the original Michael Richards incident.

I’m curious, is there ANY evidence this happened or was it just people at the time just taking his horrific statement and trying to shoehorn it into history?

2

What stands out to me is the “upside down” part.

I googled the quote and most sites have it as “Fifty years ago we’d have had you upside down with a fucking fork up your ass!” There’s no mention of hanging, and hanging wouldn’t make sense because people aren’t hung upside down.

He was responding to hecklers. Could he have meant they’d be bent over and stuck with a fork?

3

I’m not going to look for cites, because they are too sickening to read.

But I recall once reading some details of one lynching, where the person was repeatedly hung & dropped down again, and the crowd was heating iron pokers in a bonfire, and burning the person with them, concentration on his genitals & anal area. Pictures were taken, and made into postcards.

So I’d expect there would be evidence of similar activities with a fork.

4

Sounds like Paris, Texas.

Not the film.

5

I don’t know about forks, but lynchings sometimes involved burning, rather than hanging.

6

I always thought of it meaning pitch forks. Referencing the classic angry mob scenes would have rioting farmers going after an individual like Frankenstein’s monster with torches and pitch forks.

7

There was one publicized instance of a black women, Mary Turner, who was hung upside down and burned while being lynched. I could find no instances of anyone being stuck by a fork or a pitchfork.