After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I conclude that people in mobs didn’t think about their actions. For example, “Benjamin Franklin said that a lynch mob is a beast of many hands and no brains.”(NPR Radio Diary: (“Strange Fruit:Anniversary of a Lynching”)). This shows how mobs did not think before their actions, they let rage control. Most did not show any kind of sympathy. In the song “Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday the song states “The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth ,Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh ,Then the sudden smell of burning flesh”. The mobs did not even pick up the body’s after they tortured it. For these reasons, I believe that did not think about their actions.
