re: #223 jamesfirecat

Yes I’m a guy.

Really this entire thing suddenly became “clear” to me once I found out that they often “gelded” black people before they lynched them though…

Lynching often involved humiliation, beating, whipping, torture, and castration.

Statistics compiled by the N.A.A.C.P. in 1921 tell the gruesome toll of murder committed in the name of justice. Between the years 1889 through 1918, at least 3,224 people were lynched in America. Of that number 2,522 were black. The figures vary depending on the source. The Cleveland Gazette reported in 1903 that “There were 3,233 lynchings, in one form or another, in this country in the twenty-one years ending January 1, 1903” (May 16, 1903). The Tuskegee Institute chronicled over 4,000 lynchings during a similar period. In any account though, African Americans suffered the brunt of mob violence. The driving force for this unprecedented level of mob violence was mostly racism.

It didn’t stop in 1918, either.
PS. Google James Irwin or Jesse Washington if you have a strong stomach. Image search OFF.
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