Posted on 10/24/2019 2:41:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
I reckon I should apologize in advance for letting my frustration show so much in my vent and rant. I reckon I really need to get my Sledge on and bang out some live rock and roll before liberals make me as crazy as they are, and too many wishy washy republicans that make me wanna just say, "Why bother?"
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Lynching is the unjustified setting aside of judicial due process for mob vengeance. Contrary to present-day popular conception, lynching was not a crime committed exclusively against black people. Between the 1830s and the 1850s the majority of those lynched in the United States were whites. From 1882-1968, some 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States (not all lynchings were recorded). Of these, 3,446 or 73 percent were black and 1,297 (27 percent) were white.
If people are going to toss about charges and counter-charges about the meaning of “lynching”, at least get some historical perspective.
Lynching in America - whether white or Black - was almost always related to an underlying criminal offense.
Morally and legally wrong? Obviously, yes.
Innocent people lynched? Obviously, yes.
But lynching has NEVER been a uniquely white-on-Black crime in the USA.
The Democrats seem to forget that the Democrats and KKK ( but I repeat myself) lynched Republicans as well as blacks in the South!
Well, that was spot on!
Some people are so dumb.
Many white people were lynched. Whether more or fewer than blacks I have no idea, but too many of each is a certainty.
Therefore it is not racist and claiming so is a display of ignorance.
For crying out loud - horse thieves were lynched, where they not? Certainly was before my time but that’s what I heard anyway. Are we going to hear that horse lovers are now offended? Or even the horses are?
“Unjustified” is debateable.
Many times some dudes just need killin’. Dirty Harry is a good example of how that may come about.
But yes, it was EXTRALEGAL.
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