Kansas is not the first state that comes to mind when it comes to the despicable practice of lynching. But neither has Kansas escaped a role in the nation’s legacy of this form of mob injustice, which was overdue the formal apology offered last week by the U.S. Senate. According to the Tuskegee Institute, which has used newspaper accounts to chart 4,700 lynchings in 44 states between 1882 and 1968, Kansas has been the scene of 54 lynchings, 19 with black victims and 35 with white victims. That puts the state a long way from Mississippi, which led the nation with 581, but it’s hardly a point of pride for our state, which otherwise has such a proud civil rights history.
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In the past 40+ years there have been over 100 million cases of black on White crime, and amongst these over 1 million rapes. All things considered there were not nearly enough lynchings! Non-Whites understand only savagery and violence and that is what we should treat them to!
Mr. Santiago, I have read and re-read your comments and I am still having a hard time believing what I have read. With a name like Santiago, I can only assume that you are not exactly the middle slice out of a loaf of “white bread”. My only real question is what happened to you, to cause you to be filled with such hate? America’s history concerning ANY race other than the invading hordes of europeans is one of shame and disgrace. We, Mr. Santiago, arrived on this continent and systematically destroyed, murdered, raped, pillaged, enslaved, tortured an entire continent of people. And were (and still are, apparently) convinced that it was our “right ” to do so. And in this process of total genocide brought other folks to do our dirty work for us. Africans, Chinese, Mexican, even the Irish. We brought them here to be used then discarded, once they had done their part to advance America’s agenda of corporate greed and lust for power. So shame on you Mr. Santiago. Whatever happened to “All men are created equal?”
Although I disagree with Ian assessment of what he described non-whites, but is probably right about the crime statitics.
I checked it out one the FBI’s website. Over 11 million crimes committed in this country every year, and 1.1 million on average for violent crimes, including over 15,000 murders.
Makes Iraq look safe. There are places in our own country that police officers are scared to go into. South Central L.A., South Side Chicago, places in Detriot.
Although race has nothing to do with a pre-condition of crime, but circumstances and culture can breed it.
Mr. Santiago is an ultra-conservative Catholic whack job, whose breakaway sect (SSPX)buses racism to justify Spanish / White colonialism in the Americas and elswhere. He was kicked out of Cuba by Castro, and seethes with anger that the swarthy, dark-skinned masses have taken over a country that God destined for white people (Spaniards like himself) to rule. He believes God is a hateful, racist puke– predictably, much like himself.
Oh, and like most racists, he’s obsessed with violent sexual penetration perpetrated by non-white men.
You know, my spouse is of Finnish heritage, among the racially homogeneous group of people from somewhere in the Nordic Countries. Yet, there was a time when they’re considered as Mongoloid, the yellow people.
On the other hand, Spain was an Arab colony for hundreds of years. Even before then, Al Andalus had been the crossroads of many races and societies. Remember Hannibal? I bet the Moors may have succesfully passed their genes into the Latin European population. How far back does Ian have to certify his “pure ancestry” anyway?
Mr. Santiago, let me just express my regrets that I reside in the same state as you, and add that as a nonwhite (East Indian) woman, I have more brain cells in my left pinky toe than in your entire swollen excuse for a brain.
This formal apology was long overdue. What was the holdup?
Get a rope! String him up!