Gustave,
"A glimpse of what awaits Arabs and Muslims [lynchings] in the US, the land of the free, the home of the brave, the garden of the homeless....
Obviously, you're getting pretty desperate to malign the US any way you can.
Lynching was practiced in the United States from the late 19th century through the 1930's. With the exception of a few isolated incidents the practice all but ceased after the 1930's.
crimelibrary.com
"By 1918, at least 3,224 people were murdered by lynching (Library of Congress, Manuscript Collection). Undoubtedly, the real numbers were much higher for lynchings were often unreported by local authorities.
In New York City, the NAACP hung a large banner outside its headquarters announcing every time a man was lynched. Public outrage grew. As time passed, the lynchings steadily decreased with little help from Washington. The Supreme Court, as always, procrastinated and preferred to let the individual states handle the lynching crisis, which the court interpreted as a local problem. By 1932, lynchings had decreased to a new low of ten incidents and during the entire decade only 88 blacks were lynched "
There are indeed some terrible things that happened in our history and as Americans we are ashamed of those things, but the great story of America is that we learn from our mistakes.
If I had to describe the worse trait of Gustave Jaeger I would say that he is incapable of learning from his mistakes. He allows his prejudices and his passions to rule his common sense. He would rather believe in the worse of people than to acknowledge the best of people. He will always live in a world that seemingly conspires against him because the truth is too painful for him to accept. |
