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Sources all describe a mixed-race lynch mob.[edit]
The implications of a sharecropping system do not seem to be clear to the writers of this article. Much of the community stood to have worked an entire season for a share of the profits in the crop which the lynch-ees had burnt. Barn-burning was not easily forgiven. Qwirkle (talk) 02:21, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Nor was reporting necessarily honest, especially when the reporting was exclusively from the pen of the Jim Crow whites, and when even being caught talking about incidents could result in a black persons extrajudicial killing with little or no consequence for the killers. Southern papers often reported things like the mob was mixed-race to try to justify their actions. In this particular case, there was a so-called inquest. This inquest was incredibly specific that the mob included exactly 121 people, and claims some were black...but then determined that they were all unknown to us, and little more than the dead were "colored, and died by violence" and moved on without any real investigation. Still, we can only go by what the source includes, but we should at least look at it objectively and acknowledge the reporting for what it was. An extra-judicial killing of two African-Americans for an alleged crime against a white person without a trial is within the scope of Wikiproject Discrimination.Jacona (talk) 12:45, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
An extra-judicial killing of two African-Americans for an alleged crime against a white person without a trial is within the scope of Wikiproject Discrimination.Jacona (talk) 12:59, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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