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To: Free ThinkerNY

If this guy was black, and if he was left hanging from a southern tree, pretty soon we’ll be hearing a revival of “Strange Fruit” on Air America.


52 posted on 09/23/2009 2:49:11 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Lynching in the United States

"..Between 1882 and 1968, the Tuskegee Institute recorded 3,437 lynchings of African Americans and 1,293 lynchings of whites.[1].."

Table 2.3 Murder Victims by Race and Sex, 2004

"Total Black 6,632"

68 posted on 09/23/2009 3:08:46 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Cicero

Billie Holiday vs “Copperhead Road”


120 posted on 09/23/2009 5:50:57 PM PDT by Sir Beowolf ("We The People")
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