Matt Walsh

So with lynching, you know, even though we're not, we're not supposed to correct it, but it's like, yeah, black people were lynched and all the time.

And it was a terrible thing.

It was always racist.

Um, it was never justified.

It was like, just, just go with it.

Just don't say it.

Just go with it.

That's the attitude.

But in reality, because I got to be the guy always to just point out, I got to be that guy.

That, in fact, with lynching, something like a thousand or more of the lynching victims from like the 1860s to the 1930s or so, which is during the time when this sort of thing was happening, about a thousand of the victims were white.

It's a large percentage.

probably about 25 to 30 percent, not a small percentage.

White people got lynched, too.

And what does that tell you?

Well, it tells you that this is that lynching is not synonymous with racial terrorism.

Sometimes it was.

That did happen.

But what lynching really means historically in this country is an extrajudicial killing of

by hanging in the most technical sense.

And for a portion of US history, especially out on the frontier, out in the old west, this kind of killing was relatively common because they didn't have a court system and they didn't have much of one.