Posted on 10/28/2013 8:19:31 PM PDT by BlackVeil
That comment is a bit rich coming from someone in a country where stringing up black people used to be a national sport not too long ago.
He’ll soon start haunting their kids in their dreams.
Not too long ago??
When I was very young affirmative action racial preferences (against me) became the law of the land and the liberal courts up held it.
From Wikipedia: The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites were lynched between 1882 and 1968.[1]
The FBI has noted that there were 2,648 blacks killed in 2012, of these, 2,412 (91%) were killed by other blacks.
National sport? 3,466 lynched over 87 years (average of 39/year - mostly carried out by Democrats), versus 2,412 killed by their own in one year. Let's see, that would be 209,844 over the same 87-year period. Go sell that crap somewhere else.
I guarantee you that that is more than have been lynched in Britain over the same period. Fatal vigilantism is so rare in modern times in Britain that this is the first case I have ever heard of since I was at school 20 years ago, when a paedophile (who was a confirmed and convicted sex offender) was also battered to death.
The implication that lynching is commonplace in Britain is as ridiculous as it is offensive, and coming from an American, is about as hypocritical as me criticising you Americans for having bad teeth and uninspiring cuisine.
No. What I called you on was your juvenile attempt to call lynching an American Sport.
And I compared those actually killed over the better part of a century to those actually killed in a single year to put your original idiotic statement in perspective.
An American lecturing us on violence?.
Sins sarcastic remark pointed out that your country DID have a notorious history of lynching. He didn’t say anything that wasn’t true.
In fact I would point out that white and Hispanic Americans were also lynched. And the most famous victim was a white Jew, Leo Frank.
I'm not saying it didn't happen. I just called him on the BS claim that it was some National Sport in the United States. It was not. It did occur. Not all lynchings were a form of vigilantism over some perceived crime, many were just out of spite - outright murders.
I'm saying that the number of confirmed lynchings is far far lower than many people realize. By the way it's presented in PC history these days, you'd think that there was an express line for them.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.