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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There was a time when a black man could be lynched on anybody's say-so.
That was not good. We got away from that.
The other way around is no better.

12 posted on 04/06/2012 9:38:46 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: BitWielder1
There was a time when a black man could be lynched on anybody's say-so.

I'm being pedantic here (or something) but I just feel like pointing out that the total number of people who were considered "lynched" was around 3000 -- that covers the entire post-Civil War era. Three thousand. And not all of them were black (whites (often Jews), Indians, etc were lynched as well as Blacks).

The conventional wisdom is that an epidemic of lynching swept the country for decade after decade. Like most of this crap, the hysteria over lynching is mostly garbage.

I'm not sure how many whites are murdered by blacks every year, but it's a pretty big number. But Whites are the bad guys. It's racist to ever say anything else.

16 posted on 04/06/2012 9:48:13 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
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