‘Why 60 Minutes aired photos of lynchings’

[Smallpotatoes]

Did you run that opinion through Snopes?

Why? I doubt Snopes would have a differing opinion.

 

[Songbird]

Most of those probably conform to the suggestions above about border abolitionists; some more to the frontier justice model of the Wild West. Not sure how many were committed by African-Americans. I'd guess few, but as you'd imagine, the documentation is scant.

I can almost see Tarantino doing a movie about a band of blacks who hung whites a la Basterds.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Did you run that opinion through Snopes?

Why should he? He feels like it's wrong.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I watched the segment and the story about the 15,000 people attending a lynching was just sickening. Not sure why they had that disclaimer about showing the pictures. I didn't think they needed to justify it at all. They should colorize them all and then rebroadcast the entire segment.

If you think that's bad, go read about the Elaine, Ark., massacre of black sharecroppers in 1919 or the destruction of Tulsa's black Wall Street 1921.

 

[Stoney]

I seriously tend to doubt what that guy said about blacks committing lynchings.

Who is "that guy"?

 

[JC]

Who is "that guy"?

You know, that guy. We all know that guy.

 

[doctorquant]

You know, that guy. We all know that guy.

Is that guy related to those people who're talking?

 

[JC]

Is that guy related to those people who're talking?

I think he's related to "everyone says guy".

 

[Jake_Taylor]

You know, that guy. He's always talking about those people.