On 3/7/2017 10:53 AM, James A. Donald wrote:
If you want to count every murder of a black as lynching, observe that there are approximately five hundred white people killed by blacks every year,
The number of black people killed by whites, counting whites as hispanic is roughly comparable, about two hundred per year, but there is a big difference, a huge difference, in the character of the killings: Almost every black man killed by a white man was engaged in a felony at the time he was killed. Only about one non felonious black is killed by a "white" man (actually hispanic) per year.
I meant to say of course "counting hispanics as white", not "counting whites as hispanic". Today, blacks are killed by whites in the course of that black man committing a crime. In the days of lynchings, a lynching consisted of killing a black man after he committed a serious crime, instead of while he was committing a crime.