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To: Hetty_Fauxvert

My grandpa, now a very old man says he remembers reading about lynchings in the newspaper. He said that he was about 10 living in California and the newspaper articles were just a few paragraphs. He said he understood that someone was hanged, but he just didn’t understand how or why it happened. He said that he thought the South was a foreign country and bad things happened to some people there.


11 posted on 01/18/2015 8:40:43 PM PST by Cry if I Wanna
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To: Cry if I Wanna
My grandpa, now a very old man says he remembers reading about lynchings in the newspaper. He said that he was about 10 living in California and the newspaper articles were just a few paragraphs. He said he understood that someone was hanged, but he just didn’t understand how or why it happened. He said that he thought the South was a foreign country and bad things happened to some people there.

Lynchings don't necessarily have anything to do with race.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Everest

Regards,

19 posted on 01/18/2015 9:20:09 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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