Dear Ida,
How did you interpret the deep ironies that existed in the reasoning behind Southern lynchings?
It seems as though the moral policing of African-Americans by "leading white men" was a guise, collaborative in nature and built on a series of falsities that were inevitably taken for true. How then, could a group of armed men defend a known white male rapist in such a blatant way? Could moral policing only exist when it skewed the nature of relationships between black men and white women?
Did these men truly believe they were maintaining peace and justice in the South? How did this skewed implementation of "a life for a life" come to be?
Esther
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