Or maybe I should just take the attitude "that was long ago"...unless,of course,I was looking for "reparations"!
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.
Someone’s bowtie needs adjusting.
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.
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
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?
An entire article about lynching, and not one mention of Democrats...
Musta been space aliens.
I believe that more white horse thieves were lynched than black cotton pickers
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.
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.
Life is hard.
It’s even harder when you’re a horse theif.
~ John Wayne. Well maybe Clint Eastwood. James Garner?
It seems possible that blacks murder more black annually now than the sum total of all blacks lynched by whites in the last 200 years.
Am I wrong about that?
Crackers got tired of hearing about it so the blacks insisted (and, we acquiesced) it be renamed "The Tulsa Race Massacre."
Now they're even putting together a museum dedicated to it. They heard their great grandaddies talking about mass graves and we've been spending tax dollars looking for them. No graves.
But they're still talking about the injustice.
It will never end. We have created an entire class of people whose primary demographic is attention seeking whining because, in the past, it has translated into profit. Keep whining long enough, and the crackers will fork over money like an indulgent parent to a spoiled child.
The DemonRat’s KKK lynched a lot of white Republican abolitionists during the last part of the 19th century.
The democrat party actually has had members who belong to the KKK that have lynched blacks. See Sen. Robert Byrd, KKK recruiter. The democrats currently uses the thug group called antifa against anyone the democrat politicians hate.
Democrats are the party of hate hate hate.
Proven since before the civil war.