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1. sporkx+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-09-10 22:33:28
Mobs of white people (including children) used to gather around the town square to hang black people. They would literally have picnics while doing it. I feel like the majority of our population is historically illiterate. On the scale of senseless killings, this doesn't even rank.
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2. Whoppe+85[view] [source] 2025-09-10 23:02:56
>>sporkx+(OP)
It wasn't just black people being lynched. The largest single mass lynching in American history was of Italians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings
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3. sporkx+26[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-09-10 23:08:44
>>Whoppe+85
Louisiana has a dark history.

> An estimated 62–153 black men were murdered while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre

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