[lbo-talk] Gangbangers vs. Lynching Mobs

[Doug Henwood]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Adjusted for changes in US population but unadjusted for changes in 
>proportion of Blacks, 40 lynchings in 1882 would be roughly 
>equivalent to 240 lynchings in 2003.

Woj seems not to notice that lynching occurred in a context of 
systematic racial oppression. Gangbanging is awful, but gangs are 
what happen when people are marginalized and pissed on for a few 
centuries.

Doug