Remembering -- and Talking About -- Lynching in America

Townhall.com ^ | October 31, 2019 | Laura Hollis

[Gay State Conservative]

OK,so that means that I get to talk about the "No Irish Need Apply" signs that my Dad's older brother used to talk about.

Or maybe I should just take the attitude "that was long ago"...unless,of course,I was looking for "reparations"!

[2banana]

I am calling BS unless I see stats and sources.

The majority of folks lynched were white.

And the vast majority lynching blacks were democrats.

[treetopsandroofs]

Here in 2019, half of American voters are A-OK with lynching a white President.

[rlmorel]

Those are inconvenient facts for the Left.

[grey_whiskers]

Someone’s bowtie needs adjusting.

[gundog]

The map shows the lynching in my town...Coos Bay, OR... which was predicated on a false accusation by a white woman, as I remember it.

https://www.monroeworktoday.org/explore/m/map2/#3.17/40.34/-117.08

[ClearCase_guy]

I think the article starts off with a lot of virtue signaling letting people know that the author is not supportive of lynching.

I’m a little tired of such defensiveness.

But the author’s core point is good — we either have a government of laws or a government of men.

Conservatives support the government of laws. We support the Constitution. We oppose judicial legislation from the bench. We oppose the Deep State. Of course: we oppose lynching, which is extra-judicial murder.

Democrats support the government of men. They do what is expedient. They ignore the Constitution. They want judges to make the laws. And they have, historically, supported mob justice against people who annoy them. Why take that fellow to court? Why don’t we just string him up right here?

Democrats pretend to be horrified when President Trump uses the word “lynching”. But they basically own the word. They should be ashamed.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 whites. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post-Civil War period occurred in the Southern states."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States

"....According to the FBI SHR data, in 2016 there were 7,756 Black homicide victims in the United States....."

https://www.colorlines.com/articles/where-does-your-state-rank-when-it-comes-black-homicide

[The Toll]

They were all predicated on “false” accusations by white women. The TV told me so. Everyone knows black dudes have no interest in white girls.

[Altura Ct.]

So we have our own shameful past with which to contend.

While I agree with the general point in this post about the hyperbole surrendering racial issues. I call BS on this. It seems to me this statement is doing exactly what the post is arguing against. What does that mean exactly and in what way should we 'contend' with it?

As opposed to who or what?

[Magnatron]

An entire article about lynching, and not one mention of Democrats...

Musta been space aliens.

[ClearCase_guy]

It does seem that when someone identifies a Wrong, the two key questions ought to be: Who should we punish? and What law should we re-write?

In terms of slavery or lynching, everyone is dead, and the current laws are sound.

So there seems to be no need for bitching and moaning about the past. What’s the point?

[gundog]

To clarify, the incident involved a man and woman seen exiting some brush along the side of a road. Presumably, whatever occurred was consensual, but when rumors circulated, the woman claimed rape.

[bert]

I believe that more white horse thieves were lynched than black cotton pickers

[IronJack]

That equates to fewer than 5 per month. If even half of those were black, that means 2 or 3 a month.

That many black people are killed at parties in Baltimore every night. By other black people.

Where’s the outrage?

[TalBlack]

So we have our own shameful past with which to contend.”””

Just another stupid knock America screed that damns America for the sins of a tiny number of people who have acted in a singularly un American way all the way decades or centuries back. The people the author compares the evil lynchers to ARE ACTING TODAY.

[Altura Ct.]

That is a very valid point that never gets addressed. Also if we are going to make a racial issue out of this type of crap then let us look at black on white violence shall we?

[tlozo]

Some lynchings unfortunately were necessary. There is a famous lynching of assassin Jim Miller in 1909 in Oklahoma. “Killin’Jim” Miller had learned how to beat the justice system for over 25 years by bribing or killing witnesses.

[Altura Ct.]

Indeed. While I don’t advocate for it in any way many lynching whether done to blacks or whites were not done randomly or without the person being lynched having done something.