Lynching is still happening in South Carolina 2008.

[Lint Head]

This is 2008 not 1908 right? I can't believe that the national media has not picked up on this. KO should at least mention it.
Maybe it's because there is an election going on and they don't want SC to look like the backward state that it is.
Before you flame me, I was born and raised 15 miles from where John Edwards was born and worked in a textile mill as a teenager just as he did.:dem:

http://www.independentmail.com/news/2008/jan/23/basketball-dispute-continues-reported-lynching-fas/

[mth44sc]

1. Just FYI

South Carolina legally defines lynching as a mob attack against an individual where the victim survives.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/10/teens.lynching/

[acmavm]

2. You got any further news on that story other? That article doesn't even

say that it was determined that there was a 'lynching'. There was a black eye and an injured forehead. Nothing about rope, neck injuries, or anything else.

Not to diminish the seriousness of this incident, but I would like to see an update on this story.

[mth44sc]

4. Maybe this will clear up

South Carolina's "Lynching law" for you.

http://newsmine.org/archive/security/civil-rights/lynching-law-used-against-blacks.txt

[acmavm]

5. You should have posted that along with the first thread. Because not

only would it have cleared up the confusion of why you used the work lynching, it would have also made it perfectly plain that there was no lynching.

And those people who were injured aren't being prosecuted. So what the hell was the point of your example?

edit: To add that there is, if your reference is true, obviously a shitload of corruption and a lot of bigoted racial injustice going on down there in SC. But your story sure as hell ain't an example of that. Find a case where the miscarriage of justice did happen, not some half-assed story like the one you used. There should be outrage at this law being used against anyone under the circumstances that you posted. But the story you used didn't help make your point.

[mth44sc]

8. excuse me junior

I didn't post the original thread

Carry on...

[acmavm]

12. Don't call me junior slick. And ex-fucking-cuse me if I accidentally posted/

answered in the wrong place.

[mth44sc]

13. ok you're excused n/t

[acmavm]

23. Well, there's no excuse for you.

[China_cat]

19. No lynching according to the definition YOU use.

Lynching according to the definition the state of SC adheres to.

[acmavm]

26. True. My mistake is in being educated and literate.

lynch (lĭnch)
tr.v. lynched, lynch·ing, lynch·es
To execute without due process of law, especially to hang, as by a mob.

[China_cat]

27. No, your mistake is in being arrogant and believing

the world should conform to your view and definition of it.

[acmavm]

29. Not hardly. You can twist and spin and obsfucate all you want. But in

believing that if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it's probably a duck just puts me in the same boat as most of the rest of the world.

Squawk all you want. At this point you're just a clown to me.

[CountAllVotes]

3. I know someone from So. Carolina

I can barely speak to her. She is extremely racist. Age is ~60 years. :puke:

HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE is all she seems to know. :(

:kick:

[emilyg]

6. I know someone from S.C. who is not racist at all.

[CountAllVotes]

7. how old?

Seems to be a characteristic of the older people I've noticed. :shrug:

In any event, I find it disgusting!!

:kick:

[emilyg]

11. 70's

[Lint Head]

17. I'm from Anderson S.C and I am not racist. I was in High School

in the 60's, when African Americans had to go thought the back door of some businesses. I saw separate water fountains around my county. I hated these things. Thank God I had parents that were Democrats. I protested in my own way when MLK was marching.
I would do things like sit in the balcony of the movie theater where the blacks were made to sit. Only whites were allowed to sit
on the same level as the screen. I had lots of African American friends then. :dem:

[watrwefitinfor]

18. Now you know two.

:hi:

And I'm over 60, too.

Wat

[Lint Head]

24. Glad my post helped you two meet. Ha!

:toast: :hi:

[lurky]

9. I have a couple relatives from that area who

are quite progressive and active in social justice issues. They are certainly in the minority, but let's not paint with too broad a brush.

Edited to add: They are also over 60 years old.

[Lint Head]

16. I do not intend to paint with a broad brush.

I was born their. I still have immediate relatives their. You are correct. Your relatives are in the minority. They should also fear for their lives if they ever become elderly and rely on the system in SC to help them. People in the majority that believe in a fascist religious state will take advantage of a progressive caught in an unfortunately weak social situation. That is also a free speech issue as to not speak of your beliefs because of retaliation. Right wing fascists think that violence is the answer to literally everything. Hence you have a lynching in Anderson, South Carolina in 2008. Fascism is what my relatives died trying to destroy in WWII. Every true patriotic American should be willing to destroy fascism as our forefathers did. :dem:

[zorahopkins]

10. This Is Terrible

This is just awful.

Mob violence against two women.

When will it ever stop?

[originalpckelly]

14. Notice how a 16 year old BLACK GIRL is called a woman.

But if it was a white chick, we all know that'd it be a "girl" or at least a teenager.

Just think about what they called Natalie Holloway, who was of legal age when she disappeared. They called her a "girl."

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&tab=wn&q=natalie+%2Bholloway+%2Bgirl&ie=UTF-8

[originalpckelly]

15. And yes, I'm a white dude.

So it's not like I'm black and trying to make something out of nothing. This is definitely bullshit! How the fuck are you gonna call a fucking teenage girl a woman?

[China_cat]

20. The same way they turned the 14 year old

Iraqi child who was raped and murdered by our troops a 'woman'.

[Lint Head]

22. Our country is being run by Barbarians.

Children are cannon fodder and un-intended targets. The military misses the bulls eye quite often. :dem:

[Lint Head]

21. I agree. There is still a bias that even comes out through

the journalism in SC. It is like the tip of the iceberg of the majority racism that is still prevalent. It's a prejudice against women and minorities. SC was the first state to suceed from the Union and Abbeville, just 25 miles from Anderson, was the place that
Jefferson surrendered to Grant. :dem:

[originalpckelly]

25. It wasn't even "young woman" either!

:grr:

This just pisses me off, especially when it's so clear.

[Igel]

31. I must have missed something in the article.

I didn't see where anybody's race was mentioned. Of any of the people involved.

"Lynch" here apparently doesn't have any racial implication.

[China_cat]

28. We have several instances a year.

It is no surprise to anyone who lives here that it's happening in 2008.

[Karenina]

30. Isn't there a X-tian movement to migrate there

set up a theocracy and secede? Wall it off with electronic fences or something like that?