Talk:Lynching in the United States
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Wiki Education assignment: Protest and Police in US History
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2024 and 30 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Asudman (article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by Asudman (talk) 00:42, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
"Classical" lynching?
editLead describes the Till lynching as "the last classical lynching." Is that word choice not monstrously inappropriate, implying if unintentionally that lynching is a form of art? Perhaps the intended meaning is something like 'the last old-school lynching,' but even that inelegant word choice would be better than "classical." Leaving it to the talk page rather than changing it myself because I'm not exactly satisfied with "old-school" (it was more of a demonstrative example) -- hopefully we can come up with something better 216.16.137.230 (talk) 15:48, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
Recent cases
editAfter reverting a change to the lead regarding recent incidents in the USA, but it seems inaccurate to say the most recent one that we have listed from 1981. The lead might need an update in this regard, perhaps mention how the term relates to Hate crimes based on WP:PG and WP:CONSENSUS.
1. "Mississippi, all America's watching to see if you're going to do right by Rasheem Carter," Crump said. "His brokenhearted mother has nightmares at night about what her son must have been doing as a result of this lynching in 2022." ABC May 2023
2. "In some ways, Daniel Penny did what nobody else wanted to do—he engaged with Neely. He had a tragically poor understanding of how to handle the situation and seems to have believed, possibly influenced by cultural stereotypes about poor and Black people, that Jordan Neely presented an imminent threat. To many, his actions ended up more like a lynching than an intervention. Time May 2023
3. "The defense attorney who caused an outcry by saying Black pastors should be barred from the murder trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s death declared in court Friday that a courthouse rally and other actions supporting the slain Black man’s family were comparable to a “public lynching” of the three white defendants." AP Nov 2021
4. "That era was the Mississippi of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries — the Mississippi of Jim Crow and mass lynchings, the time that James Craig Anderson’s 89-year-old mother lived through, only to have her son killed by its specter." Wapo March 2016
The list goes on... DN (talk) 23:09, 15 October 2024 (UTC)