Reply #44: If we taught more about lynchings in schools

[jobycom]

we might have more liberals.

You're right, it was a sport to some, and just family entertainment to others. People were lynched in town squares with the police chief looking on, people were lynched in playhouses where tickets were sold. Pictures were taken and sold as souvenirs. Yet no one could ever figure out who was involved. One lynching in Waco drew a crowd of 15,000.

They still debate in Waco how to memorialize that lynching. Whites want to pretend it didn't happen, to, as they so gratiously put it, "move on." But Texas is a state that refuses to pass strict hate crime legislation, despite being a state where it is needed the most. (I'm not bashing Texas, I live here.)

We don't need to forget. That's the worst thing we could do.

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