Posted on 10/22/2019 8:16:07 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
“The word lynching is/has been racially loaded for decades.”
You’re right. PDJT should have been more niggardly in its use.
;^)
'Stain on this nation's the demoncrat party's history'
This privileged white man will go on using the word lynching as well as any other word I choose to use. These lib clowns, the true enemy within, can scream all they want, I will never yield to these wasted pieces of human like flesh.
I have never been a racist and even 8 long and painful years of Obama trying to destroy this country, I never will be.
God bless President Trump....
Lynchings were done by Democrats...
Gee...D’rats thought quite differently not too long ago...
From Carlie Rangel: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1998/12/18/house-section/article/h11879-2
And Bob Schneider: http://www.chicagonow.com/politics-now/2016/08/forget-issues-this-is-a-lynch-mob/
And Salon: https://www.salon.com/1998/09/23/cov_22news/
And from MRC: https://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cyberalert-09191998-gop-blamed-partisanship-lynch-mob-mentality
I understand why it is a trigger word for some people. One reason is that in history education, it is presented as something that happened only to blacks. I looked up the word and found an article by PBS, and that’s exactly how they presented it.
“While some whites were lynched for murder or stealing cattle, there is another important reason many were lynched. Many whites were lynched for helping blacks or being anti-lynching. According to David Barton’s extensively well-documented book, “Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White,” the original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white. The Klan terrorized both black and white Americans not to vote for Republican tickets. “Of all forms of violent intimidation, lynchings were by far the most effective.” Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and their platforms consistently called for a ban on lynching. “Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never did condemn lynchings.”
So there it is, the inconvenient truth. The truth that more than 1,000 whites were lynched and many of them were lynched because they were Republican, because they supported their fellow black citizens and because they opposed the lawless act of lynching. Equal rights, political autonomy, personal freedom … these are fundamental principles of our democracy. But they have not always been so. More than 360,000 whites fought and died in the (un)Civil War to help defeat slavery. And many whites were lynched because they believed that these principles also belong to black Americans. Racism is not dead in America, but the fact remains that many whites have died trying to defeat it.”
Would love to see Trump Tweet:
“Lynching? You mean that thing Democrats did?”
Heads would explode...
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