Posted on 04/17/2021 4:50:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ida B. Wells, born into slavery in 1862 and orphaned at 16, rose to fame as a journalist by shining light on things we didn't want to see — in particular, the horror of lynching. Five thousand Americans were lynched over 90 years, three quarters of them black. The numbers don't account for the notoriety of the practice; rather, the demonic zeal of its practitioners does. Even reading about it will turn your stomach. Do not look at the photos they displayed with pride of charred bodies. Lynch mobs spread terror among non-white people and those who would defend the rule of law.
Ida B. Wells proposed a solution. "A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home," she wrote, "... for that protection which the law refuses to give." "The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away," Ida noted, "[were] when he had a gun and used it in self-defense."
Translated for today, Wells's proposal will sound radical to some. The Civil War began with muzzle-loading muskets but ended with breech-loading rifles firing modern cartridges. The Winchester lever-action debuted in 1873. The “gun that won the West" was a repeating rifle that stored as many as a dozen cartridges in a tubular magazine fitted under the barrel. Someone armed with a Winchester could fire as fast as he could work the cocking lever and pull the trigger. Fans of old westerns like The Rifleman recognize the gun. It allowed an individual a new level of self-defense against multiple attackers. Atticus Finch used it to face down the mob in To Kill a Mockingbird. each time the trigger is pulled.
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I still remember when Joe Biden tried to lynch Clarence Thomas.
>>Five thousand Americans were lynched over 90 years, three quarters of them black<<
Meanwhile, today, black-on-black violence kills thousands every year.
‘you are not black unless you vote for’ BidenIdiot.
Harriet understood the value of the Second Agreement. Good for her.
Those lynching numbers are suspect to me.
Quite a few whites were lynched too.
The history of lynching in the US is deceptive, because it actually started long before the “official” start date used in most media, during reconstruction.
Before then, however, while there had been some in the South since 1830, the majority took place in California.
The other deception is that the lynching victims were innocent. Certainly true of some of them, but there were others who richly deserved it, and had they not been lynched, eventually they would have been hanged by the courts.
lynching was street justice in the West for many years
“Quite a few whites were lynched too.”
Yep. Not part of the narrative though.
Black criminals murder more black people EVERY YEAR than the KKK did during its entire existence.
And yet, liberals feel all warm and fuzzy about themselves by sympathizing with the criminals.
PING!
Not as common as you might think, for many reasons. The West was not one homogeneous whole, but territories, each of which had their own rules. For example, Indian territories, Mormon Utah, places under US military or civilian militia rule.
Towns were often divided into the orderly parts, and the bad side of town with bars, brothels, gambling, fights, etc. And as soon as they could, towns got lawmen.
Arizona’s most notorious event was the Bisbee lynching, in which an armed group went into a general goods store and brutally murdered everyone inside. They were caught and one who only got a life sentence was dragged out of jail by the angry crowd and lynched. The others were legally hung.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisbee_massacre
Far more lynchings were carried out by a Klan like group in northern AZ, against known criminals, robbers and other transient troublemakers. However, they did not document their exploits. But that meant that northern AZ, like Utah, was a no-go area for criminals.
Most killed in California were Mexican banditos and foreign immigrants, though many criminals were dispatched by vigilante organizations.
‘lynching was street justice in the West for many years...’
yes, and the ‘Ox Bow Incident’ illustrated the value (or lack thereof) quite vividly...
This puts her in the category of domestic terrorist not unlike the Weather Underground. She was participating in an actual insurrection against the federal authorities.
Just darn.
Obviously a white supremacist.
Joe Biden has a decades-long history of racism.
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