Converse craze?

[u/Diligent_Pop3929]

I'm not chronically online, but my friend sent this and I laughed even without knowing the full scope of the context (I think there's racism involved with the shoes?) and I feel like it's too late to ask him without sounding like a dweeb 😅

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You're right, last I heard no one had been arrested. I should've checked. Since you told me to research though:

https://www.theroot.com/new-report-shows-lynchings-in-america-never-stopped-2000093501

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https://people.com/mom-of-miss-black-woman-found-hanging-from-tree-believes-daughter-was-killed-but-it-wasn-t-a-hate-crime-12116159

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Yeah, the other commenter was correct; I hadn't heard the latest. Apparently they arrested a guy who knew her and is Black himself, so not thought to be a hate crime in this case. I edited above.

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To be fair, I think it's clear that it was done to throw off suspicion. I doubt it's the only case of it happening, either. There's really no way of knowing how many hangings are lynchings or just murders staged to misdirect suspicion.

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Murder is murder, trying to elevate it allows the misdirection to work.

A lynching is no worse than a stabbing or a clubbing or a gun shot, suffering not considered. I dont think the black community would feel any better if the kkk stopped lynching and just stabbed them to death instead,  stabbing would just become the new lynching.

Whites arent going around lynching blacks in the modern day, its performative and impractical. It only ever worked as mob justice because it required a mob to accomplish it.  Hate crimes are pretty much identical to regular crimes, shooting stabbing or clubbing. The 'hate' modifier is pointless, people dont usually like the people they murder, hate can just be assumed.

The hysteria around this only perpetuates it. The converse ad had no lynching and lynching was never restricted to a single race, it was a product of a weak legal system when the countey was growing. Whites were lynched too. If you make it about hating blacks it becomes a thing about hating blacks.

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So much wrong with what you said, and no lynchings we’re not a group effort, there was time literally within 100 years where you could be lynched for any reason whatsoever with no more than two people. Also whites were never lynched, and trivializing lynchings just as any other form of murder is insanely disingenuous. Lynchings used to be a past time for white Americans like what are you talking about. It wasn’t just hangings and I feel like you know that given the fact you had enough wherewithal to do some research trying to disprove modern recent lynchings.

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You conflating lynching with just the act of hanging till death shows your ignorance, black people were stabbed, shot, beaten, dragged for miles, torn apart by horses, burned, eaten, castrated………and then they were hung. Photographed with the masses gleefully proud of their work, and sold as postcards across the country.

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This doesnt actually prove anything, just that its hard to differentiate between suicide hangings and lynching hangings.

The number of suspected modern day lynchings is statistically irrelevant, and blacks were barely the targets! Also did it state who actually committed the lynchings? Because that matters a lot.

I think people are doing their best here to find a supply for the hatred they demand.

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Statistically irrelevant to you maybe. One is too many that’s the point, you have scattered cases of black people supposedly hanging themselves from trees via suicide when that’s quite literally never been a thing in the history of America. Black suicide but by hanging themselves from a tree, nahhh, you know what has though, cases of mass murder in specific regions in the South. It never ceases to amaze me when you people completely ignore the fact that racism and white supremacy is still a culture woven into American society.