From the Hartford Herald (Ky) November 18, 1914.
I knew that the Klan assholes would also be known as Regulators and Knight Riders, but I had never heard about Possum Hunters before. Nice to know that they would inflict come to your property and inflict violence if you were not thinking the way they said it was the correct one. Sounds so familiar, doesn’t it? Let’s continue:
“Hey! They had guns and would not allow us to do what we wanted! NOT FAIR!”
There is a reason why Gun Control was one of the most important things Jim Crow laws achieved. The ability of flagellate and kill people without fear of losing blood or life was outmost for the keeping of power.
And as an extra, same newspaper issue:
It still happens, but it is rare to see an investigation, much less indictments for the same thing.
The current crop of fanatics claim they’re practicing “anti-racism”. It’s like how “matter” and “anti-matter” both are still matter, and so have mass; they really only differ in aspects like spin and charge — “racism” and “anti-racism” still contain racism, and only differ in who gets oppressed and hated.
Similarly, in Europe they invented the term “positive discrimination” (i.e., affirmative action) to try to pretend that while this is discrimination, it’s somehow ok.