The lynching is the forceful taking of somebody accused of some nefarious crime, oftentimes historically involving the alleged rape of a white woman by a black man, and subsequently the hanging of that alleged offender by a mob of citizens, riled up to do that very thing. The lynching of black Americans is a great national shame, which was just another way for white people to enforce their bastardized form of justice upon the black man, so as to keep the black man down and subservient, because the white man preferred to keep the hierarchy of dominance which was the white man’s domain during the times of slavery, and did not care to see that to change.
The thing about lynching, as wrong as it was, is the salient fact that the excuse that a black man molested a white woman was, in many cases, not true at all. Rather, this narrative was created because the white man knew that the general public would be up in arms whenever they were led to believe that the black man had violated the white woman. In fact, lynching was, in many cases, a situation in which the person so being lynched was somebody of substance, such as a black man who owned his own successful business, or was respected throughout the black community for his contributions to his people. In other words, whites deliberately targeted black men to be lynched, specifically because of their success, because these black men were giving the impression that blacks weren’t inferior to the white man, at all, but rather were able to represent that they, given even half of a chance, were just as capable as whites, and this could not be tolerated by those of the white race who felt threatened by this inconvenient fact.
So then, lynching wasn’t really about a white woman being raped or molested, but was instead about raising hell and wreaking havoc upon black communities, by deliberately targeting the best and brightest amongst them, who dared to show the white man up, by outcompeting him, and by thus being successful. This then signifies that the purpose of lynching was to demonstrate to blacks that no matter how successful a given black man might be, that the white man had the power to disrupt that in the worse way possible, so as to impress upon black people, that the only blacks that the white man was willing to tolerate, were subservient, compliant, and that paid endless respect to all white man, no matter their given place in society, for the white man believed wholeheartedly that even the lowest of the low of whites, was superior to any black man.
This violence perpetrated upon the black man was a grave injustice, that was quite frankly a form of terrorism, that the government of this nation, along with the law enforcement of communities, did not do nearly enough, and in a lot of cases, did nothing, to protect the black man, because at the end of the day, they didn’t care to or believe that the black man was entitled to their full Constitutional rights or to have a fair opportunity at all.