The Lynching Epidemic That Wasn’t
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ven paranoiacs have enemies, they say, but sometimes they are just paranoid.
Representative Ayanna Pressley, a founding member of the “Squad,” organized 59 Democrats to co-sign a letter demanding a federal investigation of a spate of supposed lynchings that never happened.
The document pronounced its signatories “extremely alarmed by reports of Black people found hanging from trees in numerous states throughout our country.”
“The series of deaths,” the letter continues, “raises significant suspicion of foul play given the role of lynching in our nation’s history.” Pressley and her colleagues call for a federal investigation of every hanging death of a black person in the U.S. and insist that “inaction by the federal government is tantamount to complicity.”
The letter deems all of this “a national crisis.”
In a post on X, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said how proud she was to sign the missive. She noted that “this year, there have already been ten reported hangings of Black people in the U.S.,” and how we must “address these widespread modern-day lynchings and put a stop to this racial terror.”
It apparently didn’t occur to AOC or any of the other signers to do Google searches of local-news stories about the hangings. If they had, they would have learned that most of them were acts of suicide — awful in their own right, but not evidence that we are once again living in the Deep South circa 1892.
These news stories invariably recount how the local police have concluded that a person found hanging on a tree killed himself or herself — as well as all the speculation on social media that something more insidious must have been at play.
In one horrifying case, a young African-American woman was found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house in Jackson, Miss., and her death was indeed ruled a murder. A CNN report several days ago related the heightened scrutiny around the crime given “Mississippi’s long history of racial violence involving hangings.” The police have now arrested a 51-year-old suspect and charged him with murder, although he doesn’t advance the narrative of the Pressley letter — since he, too, is African-American.
According to CDC figures, more than 11,000 people in the United States killed themselves by hanging or a related means in 2024 — or, on average, more than 30 a day. Hundreds of these people were African Americans. In this context, a handful of black suicides by hanging occurring out of doors over the space of half a year or more wouldn’t necessarily be shocking.
The will to believe the worst, though, is very strong among the people who signed the Pressley letter. They are perpetually convinced that the KKK is on the verge of riding again and making the U.S. the equivalent of the Reconstruction-era South.
One line in the Pressley letter says that black people have been found hanging from trees in places as dispersed as “Mississippi, Michigan, and New York.” The geographic randomness suggests a widely dispersed social phenomenon; the signatories conclude instead that there are racist murderers seeded throughout the country, all carrying out brutal, symbolically resonant killings.
This is a terrible thing to believe of one’s own country — not just of its people, but of all the law-enforcement authorities who must be suppressing evidence of systematic racial violence. No matter. The Squad and its ilk have a dim view of the United States and — as racial obsessives who consider themselves fearless crusaders for justice — must find great emotional satisfaction in the notion that they are fighting the same battle as, say, the legendary scourge of lynching, Ida B. Wells.
Wells, though, didn’t have to make up outrages, whereas the current crowd tends to give credence to every story based on a fake noose, or a hate-crime hoax.
Pressley and Co. clearly hoped to stir up a social panic, but the weakness and irrationality of their argument serves only to underline their own profound and disturbing racial paranoia.
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This is what actual evil looks like. Elected officials spreading lies to stir up racial resentment, gain power and weaken the country they obviously hate.
The more educated Progressives seem to just roll their eyes when confronted with these blood libels, as they seem to shrug their shoulder and say "you can't really expect them to tell the truth, can you?" Some probably understand it's exploitive to push a hoax on less informed people but still justify it because it help's the team. But the danger is that people actually believe this nonsense. It's easy to find viral posts on social media pushing it. Partisan outlets like the AP breathlessly report arrests are made in the hanging homicide of a young black girl but keep the race of the arrestees out of the headline. The Congressional Black Caucus is holding seminars on this phantom menace sweeping the land.
The last black man to be lynched in the USA was in 1981. 45 years ago. How many Democrats know that? If they trust their leaders, they'd think black people are constantly being lynched by evil white oppressors in 2026.
This is poison to our country. It's indefensible and it gets met by "But Trump!" which in their minds justifies everything from a military coup to depose Trump to pushing a hoax substantively no different than claiming jews are going around eating Christian babies to keep their base enraged.
You mean officially, right?
I mean the last actual lynching that wasn't made up, yes.
So you have absolute proof that no lynching's have happened since then? None, not one, not even ONE that was done in secret? How do you know this?
Lol. When you resort to demanding someone prove a negative, you've lost the argument.
Even if that were true, why does that justify Democrats in Congress lying about people being lynched? Are there any lies you won't justify if they help your party?
So you're admitting that the premise for the article is false, got it.
This is just another tired dumb fuck seed from the alt-right white nationalist ass eaters over at the National Review. It's clear they support violence against black Americans because they're such little weak sniveling pale worms that crawl on their bellies and hide behind over-used anecdotal claims of violence against white people to support their useless racist rationalizations.
If that's what you took what from i wrote, I honestly feel bad for you.
I'm neither surprised by your bizarre sexualization of those who disagree with you nor that you rationalize lying to support your religion or ideology, whatever you call it. Thanks at least, for openly admitting you support lying to stir up racial resentment.
So you are opposed to politicians lying all of a sudden?
Another sad deflection instead of simply just saying, “it’s wrong to spread conspiracy theories to stir up racial resentment and division” . Loyalty to the party no matter what.
So, asking a question, in your mind, is a deflection?
Another sad deflection instead of simply just saying, “it’s wrong to spread conspiracy theories to stir up racial resentment and division” . Loyalty to the party no matter what.
one of the purposes of maga on this site ...
Be careful or I'll ask for a citation[✘]
Since 1981- Zero blacks have been lynched by white supremacists.
Dozens have been killed by falling vending machines.
Guess which one Democrats in Congress are focusing on?
Can't scare people and fundraise off vending machines like you can over imaginary crimes, I guess.
You mean far-left politicians were hung up by the facts? Now they're left dangling?
Yeah, it sounded like a good, divisive narrative that reinforced racial grievance. But it seems reality kicked the stool out from under the talking points.