Three Points

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Pictures are hung; people are hanged.

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A mob of tens of thousands of angry men surrounded a New Orleans jail, shouting angry slurs and calling for blood. By the time they were done, 11 men would be dead—shot and mutilated in an act of brutal mob violence that took place in front of a cheering crowd. It was 1891, and the crowd was about to participate in one of the largest lynchings in U.S. history.

Nearly 5,000 lynchings—vigilante murders that included shootings, hangings and other forms of mob “justice”—were recorded in the United States between 1882 and 1968. Most of their victims were African American men. But though the New Orleans lynch mob was driven by bigotry, its targets weren’t Black people.

They were Italian Americans. March 14, 1891, would go down in history as one of the darkest moments in the United States’ long history of anti-Italian discrimination.

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Black on white violence videos are too prevalent for Whoopi to not be aware of them. Misinformation, lying and false posturing are not ways to make a point. And I doubt that Whoopi has had anyone in her family hanged or she would have made it point of her diatribe.

David DeGerolamo