We all know lynching has occurred. However, it wasn't nearly as common as assholes like you want to make it sound. Plenty of Japanese and German prisoners were murdered and tortured by American troops during the war. Does that mean we should believe that everyone who voted for FDR condoned murder?
How often did I say it happened?
Also, why the need to insult? I'm an "asshole" because I have the audacity to suggest that white people lynched black people?
Fine, I'll be an asshole, I'd hate to be called something NICE by you.
There's a big difference between what sometimes happens in armies by groups of people in warfare, and a society which supported, advocated and carried out lynchings.
Lynching Statistics for 1882-1968
"From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black. The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7% of the people lynched. These numbers seem large, but it is known that not all of the lynchings were ever recorded. Out of the 4,743 people lynched only 1,297 white people were lynched. That is only 27.3%. Many of the whites lynched were lynched for helping the black or being anti lynching and even for domestic crimes. "
4,743 known lynchings. Is it a lot? Not necessarily for a time period of 80 years. That's about 60 a year on average.
"Mississippi had the highest lynchings from 1882-1968 with 581."
Some societies, like Mississippi, had more of an acceptance of mob rule and lynchings than other states.
I'd call it institutional.
Because not only do you have the lynchings themselves, you have the impact knowing you could be lynched would have on black people. Do you think they felt free in their own society?
However, I wasn't talking about number, I was talking about barbarity.
We have a few people being beheaded by ISIS and a LOT of people are saying these people are barbaric. The NUMBER they killed wasn't important. It was HOW they killed and WHY they killed that made people take notice and denounce.