In the late Soviet period, since the fifties, the ideological struggle proceeded difficult.Information about life in the United States seeped under the Iron Curtain, international exhibitions, foreign films and stories of the lucky few who traveled abroad, gave some idea of life in the "States", in many cases, distorted, but almost always painted in fabulous colors.Material and the abundance of food, "the free world" ought to oppose something."In America, blacks lynched!" This expression was one of the most serious arguments on political information and other public events designed to establish in the mass consciousness of the advantages of socialism.
lynching and racism
So, in the US there have been numerous extrajudicial killings, the victims are most often citizens of color, they are now called African-Americans, as we colloquially use the word "nigger" and without any "negative"shade.In general, these actions give an idea of what the lynching.There are cases when an angry mob killed tram driver at the wheel which hit the pedestrian.Other documented episodes demonstrated racial or national prejudice, because that for the mere suspicion of killing an Italian subject to immediate ("they are all Mafiosi") or a Jew ("drink the blood of babies during their rituals").But more often hung or burned (and sometimes, both) still black Americans.At such aggressive racism it had its own rationale.
Lynch first, Charles
morphology of words is ambiguous.«Lynching» in English means beat up his stick, and in this embodiment, the concept of a group of vigilante justice is very close to the essence of the term.But the methods of killing the accused, as a rule, did not include such a labor-intensive operations, there were easier: knitting loop, throws one end on the nearest branch, and the other - on the neck of the condemned.But another version associated with the historical figure, Judge Charles Lynch, is more plausible.Nothing new, he, in fact, not invented, but simply applied the simplified proceedings in war (then the United States fought for independence), with the only difference being that the military and all the other crimes rapidly understood in the ordinary district court rather than the tribunal.According to one version, the local residents who were present at the execution of the sentence, said, "lynched".This does not mean that the condemned are executed, penalties were different and the color of the skin solutions Charles Lynch were independent.
William Lynch, the second, and planter, Lynch third
These stories also occurred during the War of Independence.Captain Lynch, being a military man and determined gaps in the not yet established a system of justice decided to just.He created his own court.The situation in the country was difficult solutions needed quickly and efficiently.He tried as best he could, but apparently is not always true.
Another planter was Lynch, blacks are perceived as a working cattle, and also not particularly plagued by doubts.His judgment was swift, brutal verdict, in general, solutions differed little from those which would take angry mobs.It is possible that it was he who gave his name to the process during which a person is not always the guilty party, lynched.This means that there is no possible excuse.You can only prepare for death.
Lynching and the Ku Klux Klan
Lynching reached the maximum spread in the second half of the nineteenth century.Social tension that prevailed in the United States after the Civil War, the uncertainty of the situation freed from the slavery of people of color and disfranchisement whites in the South together have generated social and ideological vacuum that is readily made up for the organization of racist (John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan).They made it clear to all, and first of all, color, that, despite the equal rights enshrined in the Constitution, segregation has not been canceled, and if standards of conduct are not complied with, then the perpetrators lynched.It is, in other words, meant "niggaz know his place!»
This situation actually existed till the sixties of the last century until the segregation and racism have not begun to fight US presidents Kennedy and Johnson.Today, the word "vigilante" self-explanatory, it is used when want to expose someone's rude and cruel arbitrariness or tyranny angry crowd.
