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by wakawaka28 555 days ago
Lynchings were not always reserved for blacks nor were they solely conducted by whites. It's also not an American thing, it is human nature and exactly why we have a legal system. There were some racially motivated lynchings of course but to reduce it to that is misleading. Approximately 40% of lynching victims were not black.

If you wanna read something awesome, look at the account of this guy's encounter with a mob that wanted to lynch him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_C._Jones