Lynching, Black On Black Crime And The Hysteria Over Nooses

The specter of black men being lynched by mobs of Whites is one of the most powerful in America folklore. The sight of a noose is enough to send many blacks into paroxysms of panic and finding a noose or noose-like object is worthy of coverage by the major media outlets. I wrote back on my old blog, If The Noose Doesn't Fit You Must Acquit!, about the rather suspicious "discovery" of a noose at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (complete with collections of "culturally significant" items like stuff from noted oppressed Person of Color Colin Kaepernick! Your White Guilt tax dollars at work!) made headlines all over the place. Strangely no one ever seems to have been arrested for this dastardly deed. A search of the topic only shows stories from early June right after it allegedly was left...

Weird that a high profile case like this in a public place full of cameras never led to an arrest. It almost seems like....

Back to the real events like lynchings. I was curious: how many actual lynchings occurred in the United States so I Googled DuckDuckGo'd it. It was more than I expected to find.

In a story in the reliably far-Left Washington Post, Even more black people were lynched in the U.S. than previously thought, a study is cited regarding the total number of black lynchings in the South. The study comes from a group called "the Equal Justice Initiative" which seems to be a pretty boilerplate left-wing racial agitation cash cow. According to their webpage they think we don't talk about race enough: "The United States has done very little to acknowledge the legacy of genocide, slavery, lynching, and racial segregation." Really? It sort of seems to most rational people that all we do is acknowledge past racial issues, both real and imagined. Their report can be safely assumed to be reasonably accurate and if anything err on the side of over-reporting lynchings. Here is the key paragraph I want to look at.

Researchers said they determined that 3,959 black people were killed in “racial terror lynchings” in a dozen Southern states between 1877 and 1950. The new number includes 700 people who were not named in previous works seeking to comprehensively document the toll, the authors wrote. Some of those previous studies were conducted at a time when lynching was still an ongoing phenomenon.

3,959 lynchings. That sounds like a huge number and it is, as I said much higher than I expected. While I am a White nationalist I have no interest in hurting blacks or seeing them lynched, just as I have no sympathy for people who troll about re-enacting the narrative of the Holocaust. One black lynched is too many but let's try to look at this number in perspective.

The time frame involved is 1877-1950, or right after the Civil War and right before the Civil Rights movement took off. That is a period of 73 years. Broken out as an average per year that comes to just over 54 per year. That is really a lot, more than one per week. I assumed these were somewhat uneven and I was right, according to this story the vast majority of lynchings, over 3200, took place in the period of 1889-1918, or 100 plus years ago.

Contrast that to my current favorite stat, a favorite because getting concrete data on race and crime like it is hard to do, and the latest riot hot-spot of St. Louis. STL has had 144 murders in the first 9 months of this year and of those 133 or 93.75% were blacks. Every single suspect known to police is black. So in perspective, one city that ranks 60th in terms of population in the U.S., in just part of a year has had more than double the average number of lynchings in the South during the heyday of lynching.

Another example. In Chicago alone, just one city, during the 8 year period from 2009-2016 there were 3,940 murders, most of them black men killed by other black men (that is an assumption as very little racial data has been made available recently). Just one city over a decade has seen basically as many blacks killed by other blacks as happened in the entire history of Southern lynching.

As a side note, it was interesting to read some numbers that indicates thousands of Whites were also lynched, especially before the Civil War.

My point is not to minimize or dismiss the reality of lynching, and I am speaking here of unjust hangings contrasted with hangings that were in response to actual crimes. Just as there are plenty of perfectly justifiable police shootings of "unarmed black men", there were no doubt many more or less justifiable lynchings of blacks and Whites alike. So again I am talking about lynching blacks for sport or out of pure hatred. It was horrible and inhumane and it is blasphemous that there were no doubt lots of men who lynched blacks on Saturday and sat in church on Sunday. The issue is that all too often modern "civil rights" groups endlessly look backwards at past wrongs and never, ever look at contemporary problems. To the professional race agitator a lynching 100 years ago is more pertinent than major cities turning into shooting galleries of blacks murdering other blacks, just as one cop shooting a suspected drug dealer after a high speed chase when the "victim" was carrying a gun in 2011 is far more indicative of the real problems facing the colored community than 135 murders of blacks by other blacks this year in the same city.

We need facts and data and to be serious about these conversations. Other normie Whites are more likely to be persuaded by reason and facts than they are by the spectacle of a couple of alt-right types screeching and throwing feces at each other. This is a war of ideas versus emotions, my data versus muh feels. Make sure you are informed so you can have a rational response when you get questions about people finding a noose or a cop shooting a black or Charlottesville or any number of issues. Being outraged is a good start but it isn't enough to be angry.

Lynchings happened but they happened a long time ago. A rope tied in a particular fashion should not be a source of terror to a grown black man when that black man is under essentially no threat of being lynched by Whites or being killed by a cop if he isn't committing a crime for that matter but he is under serious threat from other black men. That is the simple reality. White identitarians must be relentless in gathering these facts and ruthless in presenting them in response to the nonsense and lies.