Matt Walsh

They didn't have a sophisticated court system or law enforcement that could handle some of this stuff.

And so you ended up with kind of this mob justice.

So you could get lynched if the townsfolk thought that you were a murderer or a rapist or a horse thief.

That was a big one.

And and and so that when we talk about the total number of people where this happened, it's like, well, that a significant portion of that had nothing to do with race.

And some of them weren't even black.

There were racially motivated lynchings.

That did happen too.

But if you look at the estimates, which obviously are not exact, but most people estimate that something like 4,000 to 5,000 people were lynched in America total in the entire history of the country.

Not a large number.

Well, about 1,300 of those victims were white.

That leaves like three to 4,000 on the entire history of the country who were black, who were lynched.

And well, if white people were lynched for non-racial reasons, obviously, then it stands to reason that there were also cases where that happened to black people because they in fact committed a crime or they at least were accused of it, just like the white people who were lynched.

So now you take out the people who were lynched, not for racial reasons, but as a form of justice for serious crimes in times and places where they didn't have a sophisticated legal system.

And so now you're narrowing it down, narrowing it down, and now you have the percentage, whatever that percentage is, I don't know.

Where, OK, now those are the people who are actually victims of racially motivated terrorism.

But it's not all 5,000, not even really close to all 5,000.

Even if it was, that's still a small number over the entire history of the country.

But, you know, that doesn't tell the whole story.

And I realize, and look, I realize that everything I'm saying right now, this is going to get clipped.