Sentences with phrase «lynch mob terror»
This perspective has empowered me to make artworks that view leaders of slave revolts as heroes, challenge American patriotism as a unifying value, burn the US Constitution (an outmoded impediment to freedom), and position the police as successors to lynch mob terror.
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Scott said it was his view that «the police are playing the same role of terror for the black community that lynch mobs did at the turn of the century.»
EJI has documented more than 4,000 «racial terror lynchings» between 1877 to 1950 — black men, women, and children who were hanged, burned alive, shot, drowned, or beaten to death by white mobs.»