[Dilbert San Diego]

Lynching was horrible, and not to minimize the history of same. But “millions” were not lynched. Someone posted some statistics on that subject, and the number was in the thousands, nowhere near millions.

Every innocent life taken is to be mourned, but, do facts matter at all???? Or are we racist if we take exception to something said by the likes of Oprah Winfrey????

[pennyfarmer]

"Every innocent life taken is to be mourned"

A fact not shared by the left which is evident in their insistence on exaggerating story.

[SkyDancer]

And don’t forget they were Democrat KKK members.

[ConradofMontferrat]

Lynchings weren’t even very much racial. They were political.

About 1,200 some odd blacks were hung. Lesser known is that around 1,100 WHITES were also hung during the same time frame.

The common denominator? They were ALL republican.

The lynchings were to discourage black folk from being republican.

From what I’ve gleaned from the news stories of that day.

Also, the LAST known lynching was circa 1925. None later.

[liberalh8ter]

3600 blacks, 1300 whites. The Tuskegee Institute needs to slap Okra with the facts.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

From left-leaning wiki;
“The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites were lynched between 1882 and 1968.”

[JoeFromSidney]

Every innocent life taken is to be mourned, but, do facts matter at all????

I just finished reading American Betrayal by Diana West. Well worth reading. I recommend it. However, I mention it here because, to me, the takeaway point of the book was, "facts no longer matter." The Martin/Zimmerman event was simply the most recent example of this.

It doesn't matter the topic: racial violence, gun restrictions, the dismal state of American education, and on and on, facts simply no longer matter. As she put it, too may people derive their facts from their theories, instead of deriving their theories from the facts.

[stylin19a]

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html

u r right. approx. 30% were not black

[anton]

In the period after the Civil War and before WW1, there was a lot of self help. Cattle rustlers, claim jumpers, rapists and the like were taken out and shot or hanged. The number of innocent Negroes who were hanged over 50 years is less than the number of innocent Negroes killed in LA and Chicago every year. And less than the number of whites who were hanged or shot for suspected but not proven offenses.

The fact that the Klan used lynching as a terror tactic has created a cottage industry in racial grievance. My home town, Cincinnati, is the center of this industry hosting the “Freedom Center” where all young blacks are propagandized with the lynching stories and a visit to the slave pen supposedly representative of the horrid conditions of slave life (but actually more like what all poor people lived like in 1840). Let them rant. Its all part of their game.