Between 1882 and 1964 1,217 whites were lynched in the U.S., being 27.3% of all lynchings. The danger of you being lynched based on race varied extensively from state to state.
Notes
1964 seems kind of late for lynching horse thieves, but two white dudes swung nevertheless. We had 7 white guys hung illegally in 1926!
Keep in mind that no one has bothered to record lynchings of Latinos, Chinese, or Native Americans as these races are outside the approved scope of American racial debate.
Also, black men are currently being lynched secretly in the south at about one every three years, and these are not being recorded as such.
Mixed race time jumpers should head to Alaska, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts or Connecticut, where no one has been lynched.
States That Only Lynched Whites
Arizona, Nevada, Maine [what, Maine?], Idaho, South Dakota, Vermont [really!], and those savage rednecks in Wisconsin.
States That Lynched More Whites Than Blacks
California, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming lynched more whites than blacks.
This information is extracted from the biased but diligent Chesnutt Archive, which declares in so many words that a white man lynched for being suspected of stealing a horse, is not an extralegal action, but that a black man being lynched for suspected murder or rape, is an extra legal action. I am of the opinion that both cases are crimes. You are welcome to use the link below to check out the numbers for yourself.
It might interest you to know James that in one of the lynchings in Wisconsin, Hans Jakob Olson (1889), the victim was hung three times before he expired. A group of vigilantes confronted Olson at his home and threatened to hang him if he didn’t leave the community immediately. They cited Olson’s criminal history (arson) and his generally unpleasant and threatening demeanor as the reasons they wanted him gone. Olson refused to leave, so the lynch mob took him outside and hung him by the neck from a tree next to his house. The mob lowered Olson to the ground right away and then asked him if he would leave now. Olson steadfastly refused, so the mob hung him a second time. The mob waited until Olson passed out and then lowered him to the ground. When Olson regained consciousness the vigilantes asked him a third time if he would leave the area. Olson still refused to be intimidated and refused to leave his home. So the mob hung Olson for the third and final time until he was dead.
Excellent historical subject James. Yes, the Leftist revisionists would have us all believe that only blacks were ever lynched in America and only for reasons of race hatred. The fact is that outside the South more whites were lynched than blacks and those lynched, regardless of race, were frequently hung because they committed some heinous crime. The over whelming majority of those lynched across the USA were men as well. One notices from reading the crime histories of states like Wisconsin and Minnesota that women who committed murder were often given relatively light prison sentences (FYI: Wisconsin abolished its death penalty in 1853 and Minnesota abolished its in 1911). This was true whether their victim was their spouse, lover, sibling or their infant. All male juries had a tendency to feel sorry for murderesses and to see them as “victims” of an unfortunate predicament (the “white knight syndrome”). So white male “privilege” didn’t exist when it came to escaping punishment in America’s past, whether said punishment was legal or extra-legal. What has always given defendants of every race and gender a significant advantage in avoiding conviction and punishment was having enough money to hire competent legal counsel. That was as true during the Salem Witch Trials as it is today.
Jeremy—do you have a time machine? Everywhere I go you have already been!
As for the white knight syndrome, that is now gone among the youngsters I know. It is astonishing to me how callous feminism and political correctness has made men of my youngest son's age [25] toward women. When I was young there were a few callous cads, and a few women worshippers, but most of us assumed the weaker sex deserved a break. Not according to the guys that just graduated from college.
Eve hath sowed a sour seed.
Happy Easter and Happy Passover too, James! I wouldn’t say the “white knight syndrome” is gone completely (women should be glad for that). Many men (even Millennials) still feel a need to gain the approval of women, even women they have no intention of having sex with. That’s what the white knight syndrome is all about. So be nice and mind your manners, you’ll make your mother proud. And don’t forget, you still can’t be mean to the girl, no matter how annoying she gets. That’s what Ray Rice found out. Also keep in mind that America is a very culturally fragmented country today; customs and manners differ greatly, not only from social class to social class and from ethnicity to ethnicity, but from region to region. For example, if you want to make friends with white people in New Jersey you must first insult them; if you act polite toward them, they will immediately become suspicious of you. This is the polar opposite of how white people west of the Appalachians would react. LOL!
One does wonder if women today realize how many perquisites, privileges and protections they have lost as a consequence of the radical Feminist quest to make women the equal of men in all things: ”In Nineteenth-Century America the feminist cause led many women across barriers into preserves once limited to males, but the jury box remained secure against female infiltration. Had lady agitators of a later day been wiser, they would never have dreamed of subverting this masculine citadel, for the all-male American jury furnished the true stronghold of women’s liberties, making it possible for the fair sex to enjoy the freedom to remove some inconvenient mortal from this world without having to take the consequences. It helped if the feminine defendants were young and beautiful, but neither youth nor beauty was essential.” (“Murder in Minnesota” by Walter N. Trenerry, 1962, 1985, Chapter 10). Although it appears greater leniency in sentencing is one perk women still enjoy. huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/men-women-prison-sentence-length-gender-gap_n_1874742.html “Men Sentenced To Longer Prison Terms than Women for Same Crimes, Study Says”. Naturally this is why it is wise for American men to be very wary of their women nowadays.
Oh, black men being “secretly lynched” in the south? If true, it’s no doubt the Mexican cartels are behind it (they favor theatrical acts of vengeance, do they not?). Which also would explain why the MSM isn’t telling us about it each and every day. Which you know they would if anyone could pin any such crime on a white perpetrator or perpetrators.
I totally believe it is the Mexicans!
It is hilarious that they are hunting black gangsters to extinction out west and according to the news the only blacks who ever get killed are killed by whites.
Yes James, it is amusing that the MSM is suppressing the stories about black gangs being wiped out by the Mexican Cartels. It shouldn’t surprise us though, since The Woman needs to maintain the narrative about racist whites attacking black people in order to keep the black community voting Democrat. If the majority of blacks ever figure out it is the Hispanic gangs that are the REAL danger to them AND that The Woman intends to allow tens of millions more Hispanic immigrants to take up residence in America, well the political backlash against the Democrat Party from the African-American community could be severe. On the other hand, would the majority of blacks ever leave the Democrats, regardless? The Woman, through her loyal minions in the MSM, has so successfully and so thoroughly discredited and demonized the Republican brand, that it is probably impossible at this point for blacks to imagine they would receive any welcome at all from the Republican Party. So no matter what transpires, blacks will continue to stick with the “free stuff” party, rather than flee back to the “emancipation” party. In fact, by the time they figure out they have been played, the Cartels will probably be holding Aztec style human sacrifices of black gang-bangers in the middle of LA. LOL!
Jeremy,
I would not be surprised if some Crip or Blood has not already had his heart cut out on a cinderblock altar. When I read Jorja Leap's book on LA gangs she could not get cops or black gang bangers to take her anywhere near Mexican territory. And somehow she figured that black gangs were still the story?
You know, eugenically speaking, Cortez was a genius, cross-breeding Conquistadors and Aztecs!
I have a couple of black friends that are republicans or independents, and they are either ostracized by their coworkers and church affiliates or are in the 'black republican closet.' The only proud black conservatives I know are Black Muslims. I simply think that our politicians and media people have raised divisiveness to such a high art form that no U.S. political party will be able to stand on consensus, morality or nationality. I'm just a wall flower but it seems a done deal from here.
Yes James, it takes a lot of courage to be a black conservative/Republican these days. They get shunned by their fellow blacks like an Amish apostate, don’t they? As far as the divisiveness of the parties, well yes of course. The Woman is fighting a war, a low level civil war to transform the country and to destroy her enemies: conservatives, libertarians and Republicans. One of The Woman’s goals is to make the Democrat Party (which is now controlled entirely by Marxist socialists) the dominant party in the country for all time. She wants to make the Republican Party as irrelevant as the Libertarian Party, or any of those other minor political parties you never heard of. That’s what the identity politics (dividing the American people into ethnic groups) is all about and why The Woman is importing all the illegal Hispanic immigrants (new Democrat voters). The Lefties are fighting a political war of conquest like one of the “Dr. Who” villains, the Daleks or the Cyber Men. Violate the rules of political correctness and you will find yourself unable to hold a job, run a business or even show your face in public. Most conservatives and Republicans don’t seem to understand they ARE in war and that they ARE being targeted for destruction. Which why they walk into ambushes so frequently. They don’t think tactically, as you would say. Their world has changed and they don’t quite realize it, and Lefties NEVER quit pushing their agenda. The Democrats lost big to the Republicans in state and local elections across the nation in 2010 and 2014, which is why The Woman is counterattacking viciously on a national level. Indiana was just the latest to be made an example of, even though all Indiana did was pass a law that was identical to the 1993 Federal Religious Freedom Law that was sponsored by the Democrats to allow the Indians to keep using peyote in their religious ceremonies. Notice how big business joined The Woman in attacking Indiana. Apple, Angies’ List et al clearly decided it was safer to run with the Leftist hounds rather than with the Conservative fox. So all you Conservatives, libertarians, Christians, gamers and other assorted non-conformists, obey The Woman or you will be exterminated!