The Left’s Campaign to Distort History and Condemn White People

David Horowitz’s Twitter feed was besieged after he pointed out the obvious.

April 18, 2018 Matthew Vadum 

Left-wingers have spent the last few days attacking David Horowitz for challenging the Equal Justice Initiative and its efforts to foment anti-white racial hatred by presenting the odious practice of lynching as an exclusively white instrument of racial oppression and terror used against blacks. But history is rarely as clear-cut as radical leftist ideologues pretend.............Research, as Horowitz has pointed out, reveals that not all victims of lynching were black and that those lynched typically were accused of serious crimes............

Tuskegee University found in its study, “Lynching, Whites and Negroes, 1882 to 1968,” that among the 4,745 lynchings examined, 1,299 of the victims were white, while 3,466 were black. (In its earliest days in antebellum America, lynching didn’t even necessarily involve killing the victim.

Vigilantes would beat, whip, or tar-and-feather their targets for perceived social transgressions.)............"Slavery was bad yes, but all the slaves in America were enslaved by blacks and white Americans freed them[,]” ..........

John Perazzo has written “that in any given year nowadays, the number of black-on-black homicides that occur nationwide far exceeds the number of white-on-black lynchings that have taken place in all the years since the Civil War, combined.”.........To Read More....