[Impala64ssa]

Zo reminding us of the skeletons in the Dem's closet that have been hidden in plain sight all along.

[sauropod]

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[alloysteel]

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.

[zeestephen]

It's important to remember that white Americans have also lynched several thousand other white Americans.

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.

[chickenlips]

Well, that was spot on!

[old curmudgeon]

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.