As a historical matter, he happens to be right, & the people arguing with him on this are wrong. As I noted earlier, you can recognize that the word "lynching" carries a particular racial history in the USA & *also* recognize that it is not an *exclusive* history.https://twitter.com/EricKleefeld/status/1186683095178711040 …
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"72.2% of (known) lynching victims were black" Dan: "lynching in most the country had nothing to do with race".
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And the Italians. My peeps suffered too. 1891
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* Lynching as defined by the Tuskegee Institute, which just so happens to be an HBCU
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For most of the time during those graphs, the black population hovered around 10-11% of the total population. If 10-11% of the population accounts for 72.7% of a group of victims of a crime, then it's safe to say that that crime's primary use was as a tool against that group.pic.twitter.com/X27AsTFV5K
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tl;dr version: Americans have every reason to see the crime of lynching through a racial lens, and pretending that such a crime doesn't carry such connotations is willing stupidity.
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Always with the most godawful tales imaginable. Your Aretha Franklin slur before her body was called wasn’t enough, huh Dan.
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That racial makeup chart has six categories and the first one covers 0 - 40%...40%!!!!!!!! This is an egregiously disingenuous attempt to water down the term "lynching". You should be ashamed.
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I can picture young Donald Trump as a Clint Eastwood fan.https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0061747/ …
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