rivrrat

Can you imagine the military implications?

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Caine

Phenomenal!

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roguenuke

Actually, "lynching" comes from the last name of some relatives in Virginia who were very influential in their respective counties during the Revolutionary War. They lead mobs to kill suspected Loyalists that lived in those counties. Although many people associate it with post-Civil War era and later, it was happening for almost a hundred years before both during the Revolutionary War and in the "wild west" to punish anyone who a particular group saw as deserving but there was no justice system available or willing to do the deed.

Caine

/sarcasm/

LIAR! Lynching ONLY happened to blacks!

OKgrannie

I would consider the Ku Klux Klan a bunch of southern whites starting up a march over a hundred years ago, and guess what: the Ku Klux Klan is alive and well:
Home Page

In spite of all the complaints about Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, there is NO black organization that has achieved the level of terrorism of the KKK.

Ku Klux Klan -- Extremism in America

"The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. Of all the types of right-wing hate groups that exist in the United States, the Klan remains the one with the greatest number of national and local organizations around the country.

More than 40 different Klan groups exist, many having multiple chapters, or “klaverns,” including a few that boast a presence in a large number of states. There are over a hundred different Klan chapters around the country, with a combined strength of members and associates that may total around 5,000.

After a period of relative quiet, Ku Klux Klan activity has spiked noticeably upwards in 2006, as Klan groups have attempted to exploit fears in America over gay marriage, perceived “assaults” on Christianity, crime and especially immigration. ......

The Ku Klux Klan first emerged following the Civil War as America’s first true terrorist group. Since its inception, the Ku Klux Klan has seen several cycles of growth and collapse, and in some of these cycles the Klan has been more extreme than in others. In all of its incarnations, however, the Klan has maintained its dual heritage of hate and violence.
At first, the Ku Klux Klan focused its anger and violence on African-Americans, on white Americans who stood up for them, and against the federal government which supported their rights. Subsequent incarnations of the Klan, which typically emerged in times of rapid social change, added more categories to its enemies list, including Jews, Catholics (less so after the 1970s), homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants. ..."

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OKgrannie

Blacks were by far the most numerous victims of lynchings. Is it remarkable that blacks today would live in fear of similar actions?

Lynching

"Lynching is the illegal execution of an accused person by a mob. The term lynching probably derived from the name Charles Lynch (1736-96), a justice of the peace who administered rough justice in Virginia. Lynching was originally a system of punishment used by whites against African American slaves. However, whites who protested against this were also in danger of being lynched"

History of Lynching in the United States, Jana Evans Braziel


"There are "2805 [documented] victims of lynch mobs killed between 1882 and 1930 in ten southern states. Although mobs murdered almost 300 white men and women, the vast majorityóalmost 2,500óof lynch victims were African-American. Of these black victims, 94 percent died in the hands of white lynch mobs. The scale of this carnage means that, on the average, a black man, woman, or child was murdered nearly once a week, every week, between 1882 and 1930 by a hate-driven white mob" (ix).

"Lynchings were concentrated in a swath running through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana: the region often referred to as the 'Black Belt'" (36).

"Mob violence against African-Americans served four functions within southern society during the lynching era:

to eradicate specific persons accused of crimes against the white community;
as a mechanism of state-sanctioned terrorism designed to maintain a degree of leverage over the African-American population;
to eliminate or neutralize competitors for social, economic, or political rewards; and
as a symbolic manifestation of the unity of white supremacy" (50). "

Caine

Umm.. I fail to see how that is a counter argument to my implication that After all this time, you would think blacks would have some thicker skin about being called a ******.

Instead, you bring up the KKK, trying to point the finger in another direction instead of ACTUALLY DISCUSSING the problem that blacks have with dealing with being called a name.

Jews have been discriminated against for well over 2 thousands years, so Im sorry blacks have nothing to complain about.

If anything, present day "African Americans" have plenty to be thankful for that they aren't back on the Yam fields starving to death in their original continent.

Chanda

First of all, you are disregarding all the white-instigated events that led up to the racial taunts, starting with the hanging of three nooses, which symbolizes KKK. Secondly, everyone is angered by those who attempt to degrade and humiliate them, not just blacks. If you really want to understand why the N word is offensive (after all this time!), watch this video introduction:

http://www.abolishthenword.com/

By the way,

misrepresenting my position doesn't validate your own.

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roguenuke

Actually, whether there were two nooses or three is one of the many discrepancies in this case. Many sites and news stories are now reporting two nooses, not the three that were originally reported. But in any case, unless these boys were connected with the KKK or actually researched this, I doubt they would actually know this symbology. I was raised in the south and had no idea that three nooses could symbolize the KKK. It's not taught in school. I only heard about it through other blogs and some of the news stories.

OKgrannie

The existence of the KKK and other terrorist groups destroys your argument that whites just shrug off any perceived insult. The modern day KKK exists because blacks and other minorities refuse to play a subordinate role any longer. ALL people, whatever color, have problems with being insulted or called insulting names, some deal with it better than others, but that has nothing to do with the race of the person.



The fact that others have been discriminated against doesn't make it right to discriminate against anyone.

Perhaps ALL of us should be thankful that we're not in our ancestors' homeland at this time, but your statement suggests that you believe blacks should actually be grateful for slavery, otherwise they wouldn't be here to MERELY be suffering from discrimination.