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Dustlawyer

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3. Check out the lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco in Wikipedia.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Aug 9, 2021, 02:19 PM

Aug 2021

I cannot get the link I tried to place to work.

For sheer horror and brutality this is the one to learn about. I used to wonder how people could have been that cruel and sick until the last few years of Trump. Now I am terminally cynical about our so called “civilization.”

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The Lynching of Benjamin Thomas, August 8, 1899 [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 OP

Opinion: Commentary: Stop To Remember Benjamin Thomas mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 #1

The following year, the white mob boarded a train near Limon, Colorado... Thomas Hurt Aug 2021 #2

Check out the lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco in Wikipedia. Dustlawyer Aug 2021 #3

What a lynching really was The Jungle 1 Aug 2021 #4