I don’t remember nooses being a “thing”. Yeah, there were lynchings, but then the nooses were actually used. The Klan did the cross burning thing (I never understood the point of that, especially as most southern blacks are Christian), but the guys who mean business don’t go around with little hints and messages, they just DID it. The folks who work in Amazon warehouses are likely too young to remember lynchings even second-hand, and would more likely use graffiti or something else to make their point.
Ok quickly....cliff notes history
It’s called lighting the cross and existed long before like medieval before the klan appropriated it for outdoor propaganda
Southern blacks.?
Blacks moved north from 1866 on...especially post WWI and were targets of political intimidation and lynchings outside of the South
In fact this is funny for race baiters but given how many blacks are in Dixie....a helluva lot I can assure you almost half of my home state...but someone should do a study of proportional lynching by a states black populations ...I think people would be surprised ...especially the Midwest
The first Klan was counter reconstruction and military occupation
The second larger Klan was nationwide and fairly accepted believe it or not and targeted immigration Catholics and Jews and blacks....
You’re probably surprised that that was possible but look how easy groups today vilify white Christians and nobody says much
The pendulum has swung especially in media and our institutions
Lest forget...whites got lynched too
And I know i know...an inconvenient truth...some of these folks were guilty of bad things....very bad things
The burning of the cross has nothing to do with Christianity. It was used by the Scottish Highland Clans to signal to their scattered members of the clan and call them to war. A burning cross on the top of a mountain could be seen for a long way, much like the method used in Lord of the Rings.
The Ku Klux Klan stole this communication device and used it to intimidate blacks.