--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> you
> allowed
> your zeal to make a dramatic point outstrip your
> common sense and wrote this:
>
> "Black gangbangers killed more Blacks than all
> lynching mobs combined in the history of this
> country
> - but never mind that - gangs have a good karma as
> the
> object of veneration of the hip hop culture, the
> coolest thing in the entertainment industry."
>
> Surely you must realize this is the sort of thing
> that
> only leads to conflict - particularly since I'm
> fairly
> certain you have no historical analysis to back this
> extraordinary claim (of course, if you do, I'd like
> to
> review it).
Here it is:
3,446 Blacks were lynched between 1882 and 1968 (the number of Whites lynched in the same period, often for opposing lynching, is 1,297). That is about 40 lynchings of Blacks and about 55 total lynchings per year. http://www.members.tripod.com/maddogx_78/lynching.html
In 2003 alone 6,912 Blacks were murdered in the United States, and between 1990 and 2000, about 10,000 Blacks were killed each year, mostly in gang- or drug related incidents http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract.html tables 298 and 300).
In Baltimore alone, virtually every day a Black person is murdered in gang-related violence, and the homicide rate in Baltimore alone (about 290 per year) exceeds the national lynching rate by the factor 5:1.
Wojtek
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