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What things? You mention 100 years ago, so I found a quote from the debate of the Dyer bill, a piece of anti-lynching legislation, in 1921 - would you say you a
by dTal 6y ago
What things? You mention 100 years ago, so I found a quote from the debate of the Dyer bill, a piece of anti-lynching legislation, in 1921 - would you say you agree with it?
"Representative Percy Quin of Mississippi, spoke of lynch law, "Whenever an infamous outrage is committed upon a [Southern] White woman the law is enforced by the neighbors of the woman who has been outraged? The colored people of [the South] realize the manner of that enforcement, and that is the one method by which the horrible crime of rape has been held down where the Negro element is in a large majority. The man who believes that the Negro race is all bad is mistaken. But you must recollect that there is an element of barbarism in the black man, and the people around where he lives recognize that fact." (Holden-Smith, 1996, p. 15) "