Terms like "thug" "lynch" etc have always felt weird to me when people insist that they are racialized, but in the media the last several years I've heard it in

Terms like "thug" "lynch" etc have always felt weird to me when people insist that they are racialized, but in the media the last several years I've heard it in higher correlation to a black purported criminal than a white one. But when I was a kid, I grew up in a town where there was a single black family. "lynch" was something that happened to cattle rustlers, and "thug" meant an italian gangster.