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Good, because your claims are false. No black person in this country was ever "skinned or burned alive just because of the color of their skin, while adults as well as their children watched."
You have not read the accounts in the book I mentioned. But that's okay, I really don't care. You're free to remain blissfully unaware in your lack of knowledge of the situation.
Last edited by trobesmom; 04-19-2021 at 08:18 AM..
OK, so putting me, a white male, born into a modest working-class family, at the end of the line behind blacks born into upper middle-class families, simply because of the circumstances of my birth isn't enough?
What else are you looking for?
I haven't made any claims at all about what you're talking about. I was discussing the plight of black people under Jim Crow laws. It was horrific and terrifying and no manner of white man umbrage and outrage over perceived wrongs is going to change that. I have never read accounts of the white community as a whole being treated like the black community as a whole under Jim Crow.
Last edited by trobesmom; 04-19-2021 at 08:02 AM..
You have not read the accounts in the book I mentioned. But that's okay, I really don't care. You're free to remain blissfully unaware in your lack of knowledge of the situation.
There are no such accounts in that book. There were plenty of brutal lynchings in retribution for the commission of crimes, but nothing like what you described was ever done "just because of the color of their skin".
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There are no such accounts in that book. There were plenty of brutal lynchings in retribution for the commission of crimes, but nothing like what you described was ever done "just because of the color of their skin".
A quote from the book. And you can look it up yourself if you don't believe me. You must have missed that part when you read it.
“Fifteen thousand men, women, and children gathered to watch eighteen-year-old Jesse Washington as he was burned alive in Waco, Texas, in May 1916. The crowd chanted, “Burn, burn, burn!” as Washington was lowered into the flames. One father holding his son on his shoulders wanted to make sure his toddler saw it.”
And you are deluding yourself if you think all those lynchings were because of crimes.
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