Posted on 11/03/2021 4:41:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Virginia's new Lt Governor:
Meet Winsome Sears, Virginia’s new Lieutenant Governor.
She is a black woman, who immigrated from Jamaica, served in our Marines, has a Masters degree, ran a women’s homeless shelter, raised 3 kids— and now she has made history.
** It was okay, it was okay in the South. People did it all the time. People would run you down, not that long ago.**
from wiki:
“Prior to the Civil War, most of the victims of lynchings in the South were white men. [4]
“A significant number of lynching victims were accused of murder or attempted murder. Rape, attempted rape or other forms of sexual assault were the second most common accusation...According to Arthur F. Raper, out of approximately 100 lynchings of African Americans which were examined between 1929 and 1940, approximately one-third of the victims were falsely accused. [but two-thirds were legitimately guilty]
“In the 1890s, African-American journalist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells conducted one of the first thorough investigations of lynching cases. She found that black lynching victims were accused of rape or attempted rape about one-third of the time (although sexual infractions were widely cited as reasons for the crime). The most prevalent accusation was murder or attempted murder...”
“From 1882 to 1968, “nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress, and three of them passed the House. Seven presidents between 1890 and 1952 petitioned Congress to pass a federal law.” [18] None succeeded in gaining passage, blocked by the Solid South...
“People often carried out lynchings in the Old West against accused criminals in custody. Lynching did not so much substitute for an absent legal system as constitute an alternative system...with the most common accusations being murder and robbery. Others were killed as suspected bandits ...” [stealing a horse was a hangable offense]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States
and
“Although often thought of as unique to states in the southern US, Americans practiced lynching across the country and, although Southern blacks were by far the most common victim, the violence left few races and ethnic groups unscathed, says Charles Seguin, assistant professor of sociology and social data analytics at Penn State and an affiliate of the Institute for CyberScience.
View the interactive map here.
Seguin adds that slavery and racism’s effect on this mob violence is deeply etched into the patterns of lynching displayed on the map, but lynching also occurred in Northern states, which had abolished slavery long before the Civil War.
““Although people knew about these lynchings at the time, I doubt many people today now know that brutal lynchings occurred in places like Chicago, Illinois; Duluth, Minnesota; or in Coatesville, Pennsylvania,” says Seguin.”
https://www.futurity.org/lynching-map-united-states-history-2064252/
Lynching people because they were black, or had land that someone wanted, or had wealth someone wanted, was the wrongest of wrongs that hangs over the heads of those democrats involved. Hanging them for legitimate crimes is not lynching; it’s a different story, and those hung for crimes shouldn’t be added to the ‘lynched’ list to inflate the numbers.
That would be like inciting a discussion of astrophysics at a monster truck rally in Toadsuck Arkansas.
Nobody cares what happens in that Nazi beerhall called “The View.”
“...pushing back against critical race theory...”
I remember the first time I heard the term ‘Critical Race Theory.” It was stated by one Barack Hussein Obama who noted it as part of his lessons taught to him by one Frank Davis when he was a small child. I wonder if Davis (an old line Commie) was actually Obama’s father.
Critical race theory wasn’t around back then.
Well. I retract all of my previous joking ridicule of Michele Tafoya. Sincerely. I don’t abide by her views on abortion and such, but I will give her credit for standing up to people who need to be stood up to.
I remember when the Patriots won the Super Bowl, and she was following Tom Brady around the field, stalking him, trying to angle for an interview after the game.
We who watched thought it was a little creepy, and jokes were made, calling her Michele “Man Hands” Tafoya because we kept seeing her hand with the microphone creeping into the screen before her.
Well. Anyone with the sand to stand up to those shrill harpies has earned my respect.
I always thought Frank Davis was a pedophile.
Black Liberation Theology
I heard Obama say it and remember when he said it. OTOH, does is exist?
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