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Originally posted by MavenofDrec
Crimson Tide,
I am in no way trying to discredit your comment, or what your history professor taught you, but I seriously doubt that lynchings occured because of land or economics. But then again, there is so much convoluted rationality in the minds of the devils who commited these crimes that anything is possible. Even worse, these "people" believed that they were commiting these acts in the name of God.
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Let me explain. Some of the men were lynched out of land greed. There were Blacks with land and whites were jealous and pissed (Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Series is a good example) and whites either burned down the land or lynched the male land owner which would scare the rest of the family away.
Also when Blacks began to compete with whites for certain jobs and some white men lost their jobs, white men struck back with a rope and a tree.
There was definitely the sexual element there as well. There is no disputing that aspect at all.