Did you forget how this started?
I asked one of these anti-woke crusaders if it’s bad for students today to learn that lynching didn’t become a federal crime until 2022.
You then stepped in and said that only a few black people were lynched and that white people were actually lynched more.
Then I posted the actual historical data showing that black people made up the very large majority of all lynching victims and that 3265 people were lynched over 58 years, to which you replied that it was not a significant number over that time frame.
I then asked if a similar number of American deaths from terrorism over 30 years was significant enough to you or not.
The issue in question here, which you have missed or chosen to ignore, isn’t what is now a largely symbolic vote on the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Bill, decades after reforms baked into the Civil Rights Act and the national spotlight on the issue helped end the era of lynching, but rather did those deaths at the time merit federal intervention, the same way the deaths and risk of death by terrorism today merit federal intervention today?
Is there something wrong with teaching that black people were lynched and were terrified of being lynched for stepping out of their subjugated place in society for decades, and is it wrong to learn about what the long term effects were when we speak about the modern state of black people in the US today, both in terms of socioeconomic status and policing? How much potential generational wealth burned up in Tulsa in 1921 and why isn’t every high school student in America learning about it?