i have been reading a book i didn't even know existed until someone dropped the title on twitter the other day: 100 Years of Lynchings
it consists of nothing but contemporaneous newspaper accounts and was published in 1962 or 1963. i found i could not just read from beginning to end as i do with most books. So I browsed for a few days. White people are horribly savage creatures. Horribly. i guess all humans have the potential for savagery, but white people in the US particularly the South but also elsewhere...
Reparations for black Americans are the least we should be doing to repent and atone for the thousands of lives tortured, mutilated, and lost, often in front of huge crowds of giddy white people. 
sorry. your question begged an answer but i don't know why we're so bad when we're also so great. people.
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