Posted on 04/09/2018 10:59:58 AM PDT by MacNaughton
Its a corollary to Godwin’s Law, which is, the longer any political debate goes on, the greater the chance one side is compared to Hitler.
The average number of lynchings per year, across the entire country, from the end of the Civil War until the 1950’s was about 30 - and while the majority of those certainly were black Americans, there was a significant portion who were white, hispanic and native American. Also, I am certainly not excusing the practice, but every case is different and guilt or innocence needs to be examined on a case-by-case basis. Is it a “lynching” if a death sentence from the local judge was carried about by a public hanging, instead of electric chair?
The leftist race-baiters want, and politically NEED, everyone to think 1) the amount was much higher, and 2) the threat of lynchings is right around the corner.
Thank you. Clarity. And proper identification of keyboard commando virtue signalling from chicken sh!t keyboard commando actor/movie history sourcing. Caulifloweronia fakirs.
It was rough times, brought on by rough people and not “reserved” misery for any race.
Like to balance these kinds of generalizations with the story of the Battle of Athens (1946) Veterans refusing to allow corruptocrats to steal an election: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29
All of my family except for one son left Alabama for Texas in 1866
The so-called memorial is a few blocks from the federal courthouse at the corner of Mildred and Holcombe street.
Most of the workers on the project think it’s a waste of time and money.
And let me tell you it is butt freaking fugly looking.
It will never mention that.
“Someone should tell them lynchings were a tool of the Democrat Party to keep control in the South. They might also mention the number of Republicans who were lynched.”
Absolutely. Republicans who were there to try to help the Negro & got lynched. I hope they also tell the true history of the NRA & how THEY tried to help as well. Tell the whole story...not just a piece.
Well they make the absurd claim that both parties “changed sides” in that Republicans became democrats, and democrats became Republicans.
Parts of east Texas weren’t much better
I was in Texas all last week
Gilmer
Big Sandy
Austin
Llano....Coopers
San Antonio
Houston
Silsbee and Beaumont
Kinfolks and Goddaughter
Its because they are ashamed of their actions
3 of 4 of my GGrandfathers fought for the Confederacy. One in the 18th Alabama, one in the 6th Florida and one in the 8th Florida. The 4th was a Methodist Circuit Rider who spent part of the war as a missionary at a Confererate camp at Doctortown, Georgia.
Hopefully the people who did the lynchings are dead. We had nothing to do with it. We did not inherit the guilt. So STFU.
I take it no mention was made of the Hangings and/or lynchings of Horse and Cattle thieves. That goes back further than the lynchings of blacks, whites and gypsies.
It most certainly was! :-)
“the threat of lynchings is right around the corner.”
They did that with the Dec 12 election. They had signs on almost every street corner in the black neighborhoods in big bold letters “VOTE OR DIE”, “Vote, YOUR LIFE depends on it”, etc.
you beat me to it. my post #21
Probably not the case at all. One doesn't have to dig too deeply to find the facts.
Haven't watched "60 Minutes" in 35+ years. It was an interesting episode and entire show. My thoughts ...
History is ugly. The complete story, which this wasn't, deserves to be told. The timing is opportunistic with regard to the 2017 Confederate monument removals and demonstrations.
After last year's demonstrations, it occurred to me that the Confederate monuments (not the soldier memorials which should remain in place) that were removed and put in storage could be put in park settings like the Hungarians did in 1993. They put all the communist statues in Memento Park in Budapest as a reminder of an ugly part of their history.
The lynching of Wes Johnson, a prominent story in this episode, took place in Abbeville, AL, in 1937. My maternal side of the family lived ~15 miles from there. My mother watched the episode last night. She was 6 years old at that time of the lynching. She said she never heard any stories about lynchings growing up.
Thought the research behind this story was not communicated well. The Tuskegee Institute did the original research 10+ years ago. TI was not mentioned at all. TI's research showed that ~25% of the lynchings during this era were white victims. I had read elsewhere, and it makes sense, that many of the victims were guilty of the charges. Of course that does not justify lynching. 60 Minutes didn't comment on any of that. The civil rights attorney in Montgomery who built this memorial, plus 60 Minutes editing, made it sound like this was all white terrorism on the black population. At this point, I question the attorney's real motive behind this memorial and museum. My cynicism defaults to reparations. I hope I am wrong on that score.
Regarding the entire 60 Minutes broadcast, it was interesting to see Oprah Wynfrey and Kamala Harris presented in 2 segments - both are on the long list of potential 2020 Democrat presidential candidates.
How sure is anyone that they got the right guys?
They all 3 were held in separate places, confessed and told the same story. A fourth was detained but released when his story made sense.
In other words around 100% certain.
"The parties have switched from that time, back then those were republicans who where against abolishing slavery and they were for segregation and jim crow".
It seems that democrats have never done anything wrong.
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