Why We Need the New Lynching Memorial

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Do you feel like liberals are engaging in race baiting or white guilt?
 
Whitewashing lynchings in this way by trying to ignore the racial basis of them is crazy.
 
That’s what it is. Making the lynchings look less racially motivated by mentioning how whites were lynched to. I’m not sure how honoring the black victims of lynchings is offensive or racist.
 
One thing the NAACP page correctly points out is that Southern lynchings and Western lynchings were two different beasts. The american West had a lot of areas where there was little rule of law, so lynchings were seen as a way to handle criminals. Whereas the South did have a court system and police and all that much more, but lynchings were a way to punish outside of the courts.
 
That is the communist ploy isn’t it? If you ask questions you are crazy.
Jump4Joy said:
That’s what it is. Making the lynchings look less racially motivated by mentioning how whites were lynched to. I’m not sure how honoring the black victims of lynchings is offensive or racist.
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How do you know the motivation for the lynchings? How do you explain the Whites that were lynched? Not one has addressed this. Not one person has offered an explanation. I think that is simply because no one can. No one has really thought about this issue nor do they care to.
 
Can you give some examples of white lynchings? I’d be particularly interested in ones that appear racially motivated as opposed to personal animus or “frontier justice.”

Id also ask if you think anti-white violence was as prevalent in the Jim Crow era as anti-black violence. I’m sure a white guy was lynched for racial reasons at some point somewhere, but I’d challenge you to say with a straight face that it was even remotely as common.
 
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One thing the NAACP page correctly points out is that Southern lynchings and Western lynchings were two different beasts. The american West had a lot of areas where there was little rule of law, so lynchings were seen as a way to handle criminals. Whereas the South did have a court system and police and all that much more, but lynchings were a way to punish outside of the courts.
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There may be some truth to that. But the South was also a somewhat lawless place for years after the war. How do we reconcile this with Ohio and Illinois? Neither state was southern or western. Both lynched Whites and Blacks but more Blacks.
 
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Id also ask if you think anti-white violence was as prevalent in the Jim Crow era as anti-black violence. I’m sure a white guy was lynched for racial reasons at some point somewhere, but I’d challenge you to say with a straight face that it was even remotely as common.
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Of course anti White violence wasn’t as common. That doesn’t mean that White victims of lynching should be ignored. You wouldn’t say we should ignore the contributions of Blacks in the American Revolution simply because they had less of a contribution, would you?
 
Explain me to why the majority of me lynched were black. Considering the time period. Emmet Till.
 
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Explain me to why the majority of me lynched were black. Considering the time period.
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No, you explain to me, if you know. I actually don’t know. I am positive everyone condemning me doesn’t know either. So tell me why and how you know.
 
Ah, so you don’t have an explanation of why you know this. But you are sure of your belief. Nothing is more dangerous than that.
 
I’m fine with the memorial- I don’t much care to see what Slate has to say about it, though.
 
This was after the period blacks were emanicipated. I’ll try to attach a link to the NAACP article I’ve read on lynchings.
 
Are we arguing belief or historical fact? Lynchings of black men in the South are widely known to be racially motivated. Cases like Emmet Till. Or black men being wrongly accused of raping a white woman and being lynched as justice. If they weren’t racially motivated, why weren’t white people lynched at the same rate or even more? You could look up the reasons whites were lynched.
 
I don’t think it is worth it to argue with him anymore. Anyone can easily Google lynchings and find articles on statistics on lynchings, the belief during the time period, and the article I read mentioned white lynchings. No one is denying that historical fact
 
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If they weren’t racially motivated, why weren’t white people lynched at the same rate or even more?
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The more important question is if lynching was due solely to racial animus why were any Whites lynched at all.
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Lynchings of black men in the South are widely known to be racially motivated.
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Widely known usually means repeated without any thought or investigation into the issue.
 
And yet everyone condemning me has.

And you know this of others how?

I don’t disagree. This is actually my point.

How on earth would you come to that conclusion? My position is quite the opposite. I condemn lynch mobs no matter who they kill, which is apparently the minority position on this thread. I’m opposed to the racist decision to memorialize only the Black victims of lynching.
 
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