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Something like 52 African Americans were lynched A WEEK on average between 1890 and 1980. America can't forget something it never learned about to begin with. The postcards and photographs only go to prove that capitalism can turn anything into a means of production ... even human suffering.
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Do you have a source for that statistic? I found this, which would put it at about 52 per year:Something like 52 African Americans were lynched A WEEK on average between 1890 and 1980.
on the average, a black man, woman, or child was murdered nearly once a week, every week, between 1882 and 1930 by a hate-driven white mob