A look at two of 4,743 lynchings in US history

1. Recently Donald Trump dug out some filth from the US cesspool of history by likening the impeachment investigation against him to a "lynching". He tweeted on 22 October 2019:

"So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here - a lynching. But we will WIN!"

2. The US always accuses other countries of violating human rights, but there were many times in its dark history when mankind saw the worst violations of human rights in the world. Similarly, the US preaches liberty to other countries, e.g. by praising the Hong Kong rioters and terrorists as "freedom fighters". However, it does not practice at home what it preaches abroad. For instance, after the American Civil War in the late 19th century, following the emancipation of slaves, many whites felt that the freed blacks were getting away with too much freedom and felt they needed to be controlled. Hence, the beginning of the terror of lynching for at least 3,446 blacks from 1882 to 1968 in US dark history.

3. The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.

Let us look at two cases investigated by NAACP in the following article entitled "History of Lynchings".

MAY 19, 1918

…...Abusive plantation owner, Hampton Smith, was shot and killed. A week long manhunt resulted in the killing of the husband of Mary Turner, Hayes Turner.

Mary Turner denied that her husband had been involved in Smith’s killing, publicly opposed her husband’s murder, and threatened to have members of the mob arrested.

On May 19th, a mob of several hundred brought her to Folsom Bridge which separates Brooks and Lowndes counties in Georgia. The mob tied her ankles, hung her upside down from a tree, doused her in gasoline and motor oil and set her on fire.

Turner was still alive when a member of the mob split her abdomen open with a knife and her unborn child fell on the ground. The baby was stomped and crushed as it fell to the ground. Turner’s body was riddled with hundreds of bullets.

TENNESSEE 1918

Walter White, The Crisis, May 1918

.....Jesse McIlherron was prosperous in a small way. He was a Negro who resented the slights and insults of white men. He went armed and the sheriff feared him. On February 8, he got into a quarrel with three young white men who insulted him. Threats were made and McIlherron fired six shots, killing two of the men.

He fled to the home of a colored clergyman who aided him to escape, and was afterwards shot and killed by a mob. McIlherron was captured and full arrangements were made for a lynching. Men, women and children started into the town of Estill Springs from a radius of fifty miles. A spot was chosen for the burning. McIlherron was chained to a hickory tree while the mob howled about him. A fire was built a few feet away and the torture began. Bars of iron were heated and the mob amused itself by putting them close to the victim, at first without touching him. One bar he grasped and as it was jerked from his grasp all the inside of his hand came with it. Then the real torturing began, lasting twenty minutes.

During that time, while his flesh was slowly roasting, the Negro never lost nerve. He cursed those who tortured him and almost to the last breath derided the attempts of the mob to break his spirit.

 

So From 1969 to Now, how many lynching of blacks are there?

 

South Carolina still has lynch laws on the books.

According to online lists of lynchings, a Jewish writer named Albert Bettelheim, convicted of murder, was lynched in Georgia on Aug. 15, 1915, two days before Frank was hanged. But no other information about Bettelheim is readily available.

Other Jewish Lynchings - Atlanta Jewish Times
atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/other-jewish-lynchings/

 

Who knows? These days, blacks are routinely murdered by racist white suprematist cops who have infiltrated law enforcement, so they aren’t called lynchings anymore.
Then we have the racist rednecks like the three that dismembered James Byrd in 1998 by wrapping a chain around his neck and dragging him behind their pickup truck. I suppose that could be classified a lynching.
Your nitpicking is precious, but murder is still murder and racism is still racism.

 

Jasper, wasn't it? Yes that was LYNCHING.

 

My great friend, you have to do your own research to find out the answer. However, I have the feeling there will be an upsurge in lynchings in the US if there is another economic depression like the Great Depression of the 1930s. Then the white Americans would blame other ethnic groups for "stealing" their jobs.

From your post, however, I can see that you have the twisted thinking of telling others to let bygones be bygones. To you, it seems that whatever crime committed by an individual or an organisation or a country in the past or even yesterday does not matter. You seem to say that what is happening at present or today is the most important.

Let us take an analogy, if you pass all subjects except one in your school examination, I don’t think you would be happy to see the red stain in your school report. Similarly, whatever wrong you have done in your past is a "stain" on your present life even if you have turned over a new leaf. By the same thinking, whatever bad had happened in a country in the past would be a "stain" in its history.

Lastly, let us look at the example of a man, 80, caught for four murders he committed 42 years ago.

He was leading a normal life of an elderly citizen until the law caught up to him for the crime he had committed in his heydays. The Baitadi District Court had sentenced Bhatta to 20 years in jail, convicting him of murdering Arjun Awasthi, Putali Awasthi, Kalash Awasthi and another person, whose identity could not be established.

Bhatta had hacked his victims to death with a khukuri in their home in Puchaudi Municipality-10 in course of a robbery. Police said the incident had taken place when the victims tried to stop Bhatta while trying to rob their house in the middle of the night.

He definitely could not lecture the judge to let bygones be bygones by telling him to let him off for the crimes he committed 42 years ago.

He certainly could not argue in court that he had turned over a new leaf and had become "a saint" by being religious and charitable since the murder.

 

Well said. I am sure you can cite many examples of recent lynchings and racist murders.

 

Sure that is what is happening. Meanwhile this black woman murders a white man in cold blood and the left gets her out of prison. Now they are making her into a millionaire. All for the extraordinary accomplishment of murdering a white man. They are literally making a hero out of a murderer.... SMH.


You made an assertion of racist white supremacist cops killing blacks. Prove it.

 

Don't ever believe a Democrat if they tell you they are pro cop. It's like believing them when they say they don't want to ban guns. Totally stupid.

Our jails are loaded with Democrats which is why Democrats fight so hard to allow them to vote and release them on our streets.

 

Jesse Jackson was coming down to investigate this one, but changed his mind. No self-respecting racist thugs hang a man with a bedsheet, deep in the woods where no message is communicated to a target population. The guy lost his money at a casino in Vicksburg and had other personal problems.

https://www.voanews.com/usa/mississippi-hanging-death-raises-lynching-specter

A whole lot has changed in 40 years. I'm sorry the man made it for 54 years and then succumbed by his own hand.

 

Lynchingwas a horrible practice used by dems to suppress votes and maintain power in the south for decades.

We still see them do it, now more publicly, with Justice Thomas, Kavanaugh, and now even the president

 

Obsessing over a specific type of racist murder that hasn't occurred in over half a century is creepy.

Like really creepy.

It's like a fetish for some people.

Oppression porn.

 

They used to run ads for future lynchings so that large crowds would show up for them. The government never did a thing about them. And, to this very day, lynching is still not a federal crime although Kamala Harris did get the Senate to pass an anti-lynching bill unanimously. The old buzzard Pelosi has blocked it in the House for months. She is a real Jim Crow baby.

 

Funny how the OP doesn't mention that 1,300 of those lynched were White. Who else is sick of leftist propaganda?

 

Here you go again making totally false statements. Lynchings were the tool of Southern Racists. Lynchings are not linked to a political party except maybe only in the minds of those who like to spout Fake History.

 

In about 1891 about a dozen Italians were lynched in New Orleans. Of course the Southern Racists did not consider Italians to be White. So you can say that Southern Racists are equal opportunity murderers. You know sort of separate but equal.

 

So you can only think of something that happen over 20 years ago. There are more murder of black by black in any giving weekend in New Orleans than all the lynching that happen over the last 50 years. You dont care about black, you only care if they are killed by non black. If you dont like this country why dont you move to an African country.

 

You seem to be more afraid of the fact that Lynching happen 50 years ago than the over 7000 killing by black each year now.

 

You are no great friend of mine, do not claim so. I am not friend with a person that think a man can be a woman or a woman could be a man. I am also no friend of a person so disillusion that they think lynching is a problem today. Question, over the next week, how many lynching will there be in the USA vs how many killing by blacks? The answer is obvious.

 

It is a defense against murder that you were mob lynching someone? Or the state does the lynching? In that case it is called execution by hanging after due process, not lynching.

 

Nawlins folks have always been extremely violent. In the great flood of 1927 the Nawlins folks snuck over to the west bank and blew the levee in an attempt to ensure those folks got most all of the hurt but they didn't.

 

When a mob takes a man out of jail and hangs him its a lynching. See Leo Frank..

 

Remember Matthew Shepard?

 

Knows what's funny as hell? After the fauxrage over his comment, a tape has surfaced of several prominent Dems, from years ago, referring to Bill Clinton's impeachment, as a "Lynching"...Suddenly, the MSM forgot ALL about it...Guess the OP did not receive the memo.