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Is it necessary to connect mob lynching to the politics |
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Answer» Explanation: The political dynamics of lynching There is much variation in what the term lynching means. But what’s constant is that from the US in the 1900s to India now, lynching has been a strategy used for the political sense it makes at a local level. By Vikram DOCTOR, ET CONTRIBUTORS IST In May 1899, The Times of India carried a REPORT on a “Savage Lynching of a Negro.” In the American state of Georgia, a black man named Sam Hose had been accused of killing his employer and “outraging his wife,” and had been killed by a mob. What made this EVENT NEWS on the other side of the world was the extreme, almost exhilarated, VIOLENCE of the killing that took place. |
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