/lit/ - Literature

>>4311926
More familiar than you, apparently. Lynching was done to criminals. Black people commit more crime, so they were lynched more often. Their proportion of lynchings was actually shockingly similar to their proportion of violent crimes.

>Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968

Of course you are just trying to derail the thread by getting tunnel vision on a single word. Please stay on the topic of the book, thanks.

>>3459909
Because 12.2% of their population is Black, and they can't arrest Black people until they commit at least one crime.

>>1656323
The rise in crime was not any greater than would have been expected from the rise in Black population.