Blacks strung up all the time during slavery days?
Sorry, slave owners looked at slaves as expensive investments and considering the time it took a lot of money to buy a slave. It made zero sense to destroy that investment. Punished, yes. Killed, seldom.
>>Punished, yes. Killed, seldom.<<
It was done often enough for the symbol to last. A chronically uppity slave eventually worked better as an example than the trouble of constantly fighting him.
My point remains that the noose is seen as a symbolic threat in the black community and with at least some good reason. Why people want to close their eyes to this is beyond me.