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The pictures that jumped to mind for this as a potential social issue aren't the Civil War ones - they're the Jim Crow era lynch mob pictures. I'd say there's
by fencepost 8y ago
The pictures that jumped to mind for this as a potential social issue aren't the Civil War ones - they're the Jim Crow era lynch mob pictures.
I'd say there's a huge difference between knowing that your (or someone else's) ancestors were terribly racist and knowing that they were involved in murders.
- orblivion 8y agoHow about your living relatives? This wasn't so long ago.
- fencepost 8y agoBased on numbers from http://law2.umkc.edu/Faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingyear.html http://law2.umkc.edu/Faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynching... lynchings dropped off pretty rapidly after 1922, and were in the single digits annually by the mid 1930s. I suspect that there's also a drop in pictures of crowds and a social change that made them considered if not wrong at least "not something that people like US do." There are very few people still alive who were adults when there were large numbers of lynchings happening in the US.
- mirimir 8y agoYes, and there's no statute of limitation for murder.