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Originally Posted by Tashah  There's no argument that blacks were lynched. But lynching was never unconditionally confined to black victims. How many 'renegade' Indians were lynched? How many white cattle rustlers? All colors have dangled from the end of the vigilante hangman's noose. |
The difference is easily discernible. While whites, native Americans, and others were lynched over alleged crimes, or as a result of superstition, blacks were lynched as a result of nothing more than pure hatred, because their skin color was different. To dilute the meaning of "the noose" is to dilute the history of America's own Holocaust (slavery), and the South's attempt after that to "keep the n!gger down", and also deny him the right to vote, which is where the noose figures in very prominently. We should never forget America's own dark side in world events, and if we ever do, then thank God for the Second Amendment. If a "Mississippi Burning" episode were to happen today, blacks would undoubtedly take up arms and shoot to kill, and they would have my unconditional support. Times have changed, folks.
The noose may just be a symbol of mob action and vigilantism in the rest of the world, but in America, it represents the very worst in man's treatment of their fellow man. Yes, the noose HAS meaning, and let us not ever forget that.