Summary Of The Negro Holocaust: Lynching And Race Riots

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I blame my local library's American History section for instilling in me a fear of Caucasian women. Go ahead, pick up Robert A. Gibson's "The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880–1950". After reading how the rhetoric surrounding lynchings frequently suggested they were to protect the virtue and safety of white women, you'll cower in fear ! Subsequently, only the brave should dare google Lisa Lindquist Dorr's White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960.

It doesn't stop there....

Look at these contemporary cases. First up there is the case of Amanda Knoxx. She lied, saying that the Congolese owner of a bar where she used to work murdered her roommate. Next, who can forget the perfidious Charles Stuart blaming a black man for killing his pregnant wife when in fact he did. Is there a more egregious case of Blame the Black man syndrome than Susan Smith who alleged to being carjacked in South Carolina by a Black man who drove away with her two young sons — ages 3 and 14 months — still in the car. She later confessed to letting her 1990 Mazda Protegé roll into a nearby lake, and drowning her children inside.
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Unless that is we are talking about the serial killer movie genre. Did you know that it's the sanctity of a white woman soul, that fuels the unrelenting serial killer's journey to new depths of depravity. They are the cinema's answer to the dubious lack of unicorns populating

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