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- We're focusing on lynchings of African-Americans because when whites were lynched it was really more about punishment — it wasn't sent to terrorize the white community, it was intended to actually make the white community feel safe.
In most of the places where these lynchings took place —in fact in all of them— there was a functioning criminal justice system that was deemed too good for African-Americans.