what's your viewpoint on lynchings??

Question

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/mass/lynching/lynching_2.html

Answer 1

How is anyone going to support lynchings? I mean, it was used to hurt, harm and kill people and there is no way to support it.

Having said that, perhaps some history is needed as to when and why lynchings came about. Following the Civil War the USA went into a period known as Reconstruction and then following the formal ending of this program to re-integrate the Southern States into the USA, the period was known as the Era of Jim Crow.

During this time period, roughly from Plessey v. Ferguson in the 1890s to Brown v. Board of Education in the 1950s, whites in the South made a specific and concerted attempt to keep African-Americans disenfranchised (so they couldn't vote) and poor. It has been pretty well established that when an African-American became successful, either through hard work or business sense, whites felt threatened by this new found wealth and power, from that African-American and lunchings were used to 'keep him down'. For awhile the NAACP offices in New York City draped a large banner from their window every time an African-American was lynched. This went on for years, trying to get the American public to acknowledge the terrorist activities of small groups of whites, operating outside the law, but often with the officers of the law ignoring their doings.

One might ask, "Were African-Americans the only ones who were lynched?" The answer is no. There are cases in the Southwest and California where people of Hispanic descent, Asian descent and even a couple Caucasians were also lynched. However, the number of these is significantly smaller than what occurred in the South with the open persecution of African-Americans.

Answer 2

I'm against it! It is just a form of violence in which a mob executes a presumed offender, often also torturing him and mutilating his body, without trial, under the pretense of administering justice. The term "lynch law" refers to a self-constituted court that imposes sentence on a person without due process of law. Both terms are derived from the name of Charles Lynch, a Virginia planter and patriot who, during the American Revolution, headed an irregular court formed to punish Loyalists.

Summary and irregular justice have been practiced in many countries under unsettled conditions whenever informally organized groups have attempted to supplement or replace legal procedure. The fehmic courts of medieval Germany had some aspects of lynching, as did the gibbet law and Cowper justice of border districts in England. The Santa Hermandad institution in medieval Spain and pogroms directed against Jews in Russia and Poland were similar, though in these cases there was support from legally constituted authorities.

Statistics of reported lynching in the United States indicate that, between 1882 and 1951, 4,730 persons were lynched, of whom 1,293 were white and 3,437 were black. Lynching continued to be associated with racial disputes during the 1950s and '60s when civil rights workers and advocates were threatened and in some cases killed by mobs.

Answer 3

There is no civilized viewpoint except that it is and was barbarous.

Answer 4

only for liberals