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What would you consider the minimum percentage of deaths for something to be a concern worth protesting? Historians estimate that fewer than 4,000 black people
by danso 8y ago
What would you consider the minimum percentage of deaths for something to be a concern worth protesting? Historians estimate that fewer than 4,000 black people were lynched in the years between 1877 and 1950 [0] -- e.g. about 55 per year, which makes being lynched as an African-American not "statistically relevant" by your standards. Were the protests by African-Americans in that period unnecessary?
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/10/even-more-black-people-were-lynched-in-the-u-s-than-previously-thought-study-finds/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/02/1...