Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it, right?
That this story was buried for so long mean't that no one could learn from it. It's important that humanity learns of and recognizes the atrocities that people can inflict on their fellow humans and the suffering of the victims to ensure that they are never repeated.
Fortunately, we living in an era when all those who had to live in silence in the past have the opportunity to find their voices.
I find the right-wingers' efforts to stymie discussion about atrocities highly suspicious, as if they might approve of such atrocities perhaps being repeated, perhaps in furtherance of their pet causes.
History is repeating itself. Black people then thought they could just form a lynch mob and kill a bunch of white people in order to protect one of their own criminals. Today they are doing the same with their violent lynch mob riots in response to black criminals being justifiably killed by cops.
Enough with the "lynch mob" crap. You are trying to hide something.
You cannot justify wholesale murder of innocent people and destruction of a large neighborhood full of homes and businesses based on some story about an alleged rape and the actions of a few people who went to the jail to free the "rapist," even if this story was true, which I seriously doubt.
Recently, hundreds of thousands of people have marched peacefully, carrying signs and chanting.about police treatment of people of color. This was not a "lynch mob."
We don't know whether the people who were killed by cops were criminals who were caught red-handed, nor do we know whether their killing was justified. These marchers were there to demand a full investigation, answers, and punishment for any wrongdoing. We also don't know whether the people who looted and set fires were there to support this cause or whether they were simply opportunists.