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i just read that book actually. and it was a POWERFUL read. if any of you get a chance, you should read All God's Children. That book is about so many things: violence, racism, poverty, mental illness.. all in the black community. but one thing that it does address is why blacks were lynched. and it said that many whites feared that blacks were getting too rich, gaining too much land, and pretty much moving to their level on the economic pole. so to keep blacks in check and to keep their poor and inferior, whites would lynch them. i'm not saying it wasn't about white women at times and their claims that black men were preying on them. but many times it was just to keep blacks from gaining power and money and land.
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