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I find it so crazy that lynching was not illegal, and not only was it not illegal, it was seen as a tradition. It is just so weird to look back and see those things that no one would even think of now.

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It is so weird to think that people used to classify other people in classes. That people thought that just because of someones skin they were in a lower class.

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It is so irritating to me to think that by a single accusation could get a man killed. One lie and that's all it takes. That is so crazy to me.

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I do not understand why whites decided they needed to feel so much more powerful than blacks. They went as far as killing them as if the segregation laws were not enough to make blacks feel bad and less.

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How did this myth about black people being inferior to white people start. Also, how come people believed and followed it so strongly? It is crazy that just a myth like this turned into whites thinking it was okay to 🤬 blacks without a proven reason.

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I think it is ridiculous how quickly people were to believe that a black man raped a white women even when there was no evidence. All it took was one white person to say a lie like that and an innocent man could be killed.

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It says that the people who lynch other people do it for their version of justice. I am wondering how someone could feel that it is fair or just to 🤬 another person illegally because of the way they look. It is messed up that a person could actually think that someone deserves death because they have a different skin color.

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The fact that people basically made up a ranking called social Darwinism so they could degrade people is so awful

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I find it crazy that a black man was lynched because his store was competing with a white mans store it just shows how arrogant white people were back then

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throughout the video they try to justify black men being lynched because they raped white women when most of the time it never happened

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Its surprising that until recently first class citizenship was not a right but a privilege so black people never got it

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As the video goes on the facts that I am learning are just horrific because many black people were hung, tortured and burned alive.

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Its crazy they tried to justify the lynching by saying blacks were evolved from animals as if it makes that okay. would they think its fine to hang a dog?

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How could someone take a piece of a persons dismembered body as a souvenir? Why would you want a reminder that you helped 🤬 someone? How could you not think of the friends they had or the family they took care of?

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Its scary to me that between the years 1882 and 1951 about 4,730 people were lynched and most of them were black.

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It was quite sickening that segregation of races in all aspects in life wasn't enough. White Americans had to use lynchings as a way to make the separation of the races deeper than it already was especially in the southern states.

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When they talk about how they lynched the black men is really sad because so much violence is being cause just for the fact because they hated someone because of their skin color.

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Throughout the video they talk about reasons why they did this and they use the excuse that black men are raping white women. It is so stupid that they used the lie that black people were raping white woman because they were defenseless as an excuse to be able to  innocent black men. This demeaning to both black men and white women because good men are being confused and white women because they don´t think they can take care of themselves.

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The idea throughout the video is that black people are more primative then white people is so terrible. They actually believed they were less than as a human being because of a difference in skin color.

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I thought it was interesting that it was originally to show what they thought was justice by killing the people they believed were guilty. However as time went on it became a racial thing and they started killing innocent black men.

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An interesting idea throughout this time period was that white women needed protection from African Americans. As if their "purity" was at risk. This idea is so damaging...it prevented white women and black men from having happy relationships because of a racist and completely, utterly false idea.
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Innocent black lives were lost by lynching due to the idea that black men were raping white women, when there hasn't even been previous history of this occuring. Yet people would use it as an excuse to get a black person killed, such as if a black person is competing with a white storeowner.  It is sickening to think that people would go as far as to have blacks killed in order to not have competition in business, and in other aspects of life.  -around 7:35

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Its crazy that they actually made pictures of different skulls and the only one compared to a chimpanzee was an African American.

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The general idea occuring throughout the 19th/early 20th century that to have white skin is to be pure and to have black skin isn't pure is absolutely ridiculous. It is absurd how low people would go as to compare African Americans to animals like Chimpanzees, dehumanizing them. And what's even worse is how scientists would try to prove these ideas, and for what? So that they could keep their "high social status"? -around 5:00

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I find it crazy that 4,730 people mostly black through 1882 to 1951 were lynched , tortured and dismembered and pieces either discharged or kept as souvenirs, it's disguising how cruel people were back then.

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1:12 linching started it the revolutionary war

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0:25 the little girl looks at the hanging man and smiles relay happily at him

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It rubbed me the wrong way when an African American male got lynched because his business was competing with a white males business. There was no conflict other then the fact that the two businesses were competing with each other but instead handling the situation in the correct manner it caused a African American man to loose his life for an invalid reason. I think that the entire town had been brainwashed at the point. Kids are growing in an environment where your parents, teachers, neighbors, and more are lower someone based on their skin color. Therefore, it became "ok" to do the same thing as their "role models" because the didn't know anything else and this caused several African Americans to loose their lives. No one wanted African Americans to compete with a whites because possibly the African American could have come out on top and the white people wouldn't allow that to be an option; there was going to be no dent in a white person's social status. (Around 7: 30-8:00)

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What made it seem okay to do lynching in any sane person's mind for such bizarre and unacceptable reasons? Why didn't people who didn't believe in this use the power they had to stand up and say something? They really didn't have much to fear themselves as white people. Why would people want to keep parts after they had been dimembered? That is sickening beyond compare and it baffles me how that was a legal, acceptable, and even at times enjoyed thing to do.

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Back then, white people always found a way to be seen as "better". No matter what it took, the white people would do anything to obtain their social status. When these people had kids, their kids would learn these bad habits. Unfortunately, there were not many ways you could look at a situation; it was either you listen to your families wishes which could cause you to hate someone for no valid (the reason given was the difference in skin tone) or you could go against your families wishes and get shunned by them. It is amazing to think that in this time period parents could potentially teach their kids how to hate someone and how to degrade them to make themselves appear better. (Around 7:00-7:15)

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its crazy that some states had numbers has low as 1 to states that had them as high as 336

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to me it seemed like the narrator didnt have a problem with lynching

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It is wrong for them to think that African-Americans were devolving the fact that they told this to the whole world is sick because the African-Americans also had to see that and some of them had already experienced so much racism that it must have crushed them to hear all the white people talk about them like this. I hope that none of them believed the white people when they were told they were inferior.

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Although black men had genuine relationships with white women, white men still believed that was rape and that very rape that has happened, was indeed because of a black man.

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I didn't know that lynching actually began in the Revolutionary Wars.

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I find it surprising that people would pretend to be raped just so they could justify a lynching

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I find really surprising  that people just thought that they were great then other people and classified themselves as better just because they are a different color  and it's still every common today and it's sad  because we truly are all the same.

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The white people always had to have something over African Americans. They always thought of the cruelest things to gain any advantages or confidence over the African Americans despite being exactly the same as them. This is what is so messed up about the history of the United States. If a racial group of people is killing another racial group, than there is a problem and the only people that were standing up to this violence were the African Americans. The white people did not realize that this was a problem that they were trying to clear out parts of the race just because they were in the same place as them, which I find to be messed up.

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Talking about Social-Darwinism.
They were just looking for an excuse, a justification. I think that people knew this was wrong. That or they were either so committed to their belief that any evidence would do, and everyone accepted it because it meant less conflict, less change, and they didn't have to admit that they were wrong.

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I'm phased by the fact the looked at lynching as tradition rather than the cruel action it is.

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how were so many people ok with lynching enough to make it a tradition?

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I think it is absurd thst the men were deciding these things and using who women are in relationships or potentially could be in relationships with as and excuse to do the lynching. It minimizes women and most importantly the African Americans.

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10:13 some white people would keep the parts as suvenears

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I find it strange but entirely humanlike that people still believed the claim that black men had raped white women, even after this had been reported too many times to be credible.

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I didn't know that lynching happened to both black and white people. I thought that it was interesting that it soon later became a racial thing that more black people were lynched than whites. The racial discrepancy between the black and whites lynching was sort of a way to show blacks that they are undeserving of a good life. They didn't really matter and so to show them that they didn't really belong they decided to lynch them in front of everyone as sort of a embarrassment.

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i was surprised that after white woman would have a consensual relationship with a black man and then accuse him of rape knowing he would be put to death

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It said that some would keep parts of the victims body parts as souvenirs. I find that disgusting, what would anyone want to do with a deceased persons limb? Maybe it was one of the victims family members, I do not know, but I just find it very disturbing.

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Supposivly The White Women being raped by African Americans rose out of the racisum for african Americans No one knows to treat them the right way in the time because thats how they are raised

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The fact that there was a spike in rape accusations and lynchings because of black men accused of raping white women despite there not being history of this problem in America just goes to
show how many innocent black men were wrongfully put to death.

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Its crazy how people actually thought that black people were devolving over time. In a way we are all getting weaker, we used to need to hunt or grow crops for food but now we and drive to a store and buy food in a manner of minutes.

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I think it's crazy that human being were/are catagorized into classes, as the video was describing that people in that time felt that 1st class citizenship was a priviledge. This was happening in the United States of America, which was a country built on the idea of freedom and that in our Declaration of Independence it states that "all men are created equal" (Men meaning mankind- all humans). Ranking humans in classes is not equal.
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The image of the "devolving" black man is quite sicking. To say that we are above them and they are everything less than us is horrible

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I find it crazy that a black man got lynched just because he was successfully competing with a white store owner

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They were talking about how first class citizenship was not seen as a right but as a privilege. I don't understand how people could think this way, how people did think this way. Some part of the person must have known that it was wrong. How did a country founded on freedom become a country living on oppression.

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I was surprised that people in the late 19th century could be categorized and ranked just by their social standing.

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It's interesting to see how the idea began from evolution and to see how to came to the point that it was rape when a black men slept with a white woman with consent.

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People were attempting to use "science" as a way to degrade people based on their social status. Science is solely based on facts rather than opinions and/or emotions. This form of "science" should have not been considered to be fact because it wasn't. Many people of higher class (whites) were looked at as better than those of lower class (African Americans) due to these so called "facts". The white upper class was attempting to find anyway to make African Americans feel/be less then them. This whole idea is wrong on so many levels because their degrading someone based on their skin color. (Around 3:55-4:00)

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It is very sickening that almost the whole point, at first, of lynching was to devolutionize the African Americans because they were seen as inferior to white people. Around the 5 min mark.

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People cannot be ranked like they talk about in Social Darwinism there are so many more aspects to a person then their social standing and group affiliations.

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The lynchings got turned from tradition to racial.

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its sick how it said that blacks were devolving. middle of the video.

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its crazy to hear that the white people had thought that African Americans had evolved from chimpanzees,

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It was not until 1886 that black lynchings exceeded white lynchings.

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It's weird how incredibly easy it was to get someone lynched. Basically any black man accused of rape was a dead man walking.

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(Image of Whites to African Americans to Chimpanzee) Its crazy how people did not like different so much or were racist enoung to even consider African Americans closer to a chimpanzee than a Human

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It was not until 1886 that black lynchings exceeded white lynchings.

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It was not until 1886 that black lynchings exceeded white lynchings.

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They said that it wasn't until 1886 that lynching became "racialized." Black lynching numbers passed white lynching numbers. This isn't something you usually think about because lynching is typically used in regards to black people after it became this way in 1886, I didn't know that it started with white people.

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I was surprised that lynching had become a tradition to white people. Were there other races that they acted this hostiley to? Were the Native Americans treated this way?

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I had no idea that people thinking of black people as less started from Darwinism

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I thought that it was interesting how lynching started taking place in the Revolutionary War time. This was a time with not a lot of courts and the people could get away with these sort of things because there were not many courts around to stop them. As said in the video, "It is a local justice that is not condoned by a formal court," meaning that the people wanted to do what they thought was right when it wasn't. They knew that if they took it to the court it more than likely wouldn't be allowed so they took matters into their own hands to bring justice to their town.

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The theory of devolution that has happened in the history, seems cruel. Anything put into this science or theory just seems weird to even think about. Because of the fuel of hatred that these scientists had to someone that had not done anything wrong against them.

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the number between white and black lynch victims showed that they had no true justice

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Social Darwinism is a very evil form of "science" if you can even call it that. The fact that scientists back then would believe that scientifically African Americans were not Human and were devolving was astonishing.

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To me the social darwinism people and their beliefs and actions made them seem pretty ignorat

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Its really sad that in our country people are not given the rights that the constitution promised them because they are seen as less than someone else

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I find it extremely disgusting how they had an image depicting people from different ethnicity, especially African Americans, as having an animal like skeleton almost showing it to be worse than a gorilla

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In the earlier part of the video, it mentions that the british began lynching. This was surprising to me. They were generally seen as fairly civilized people, not the kind to act on impulse.

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Lynching was actually started in the Revolutionary war. This makes sense because there weren't a lot of courts and people "had to take justice into their own hands," local justice. I still don't think its right, though, for a small group of people to decide whether someone lives or dies.

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i found it odd how something as bad as lynching was considered tradition for that many yeara

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Lynching was started because they could not get to courts to get justice, so they did it themselves.

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Why were whites specifically lynching black people only? I do not think that anybody should do it but why did they only target black people?

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why was it ok back then to treat others that were colored worse then you would treat your cattle.

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"The number of Black lynch victums exeeded the number of white Lynch Victums" The way people deliverd justice illegally seems like it could relate to false accusations that people make such as African American rape