"Sock It to Me"

[Wilson Gray]

On Jun 5, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> FWIW, "lynching" has never been restricted to hanging, though in
> modern usage that does seem to be the usual connotation.  Undoubtedly
> it's been influenced by innumerable movie lynchings of hoss and cattle
> thieves who are uniformly hanged by vigilantes.
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> JL
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> Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> At 3:03 AM -0400 6/5/05, Sam Clements wrote:
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>> From: "Wilson Gray"
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>> Subject: Re: "Sock It to Me"
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>>> Jesus! - you should pardon the expression - how long have you been
>>> living in this country, Ben? Are you really so unaware of the way
>>> that
>>> things were and are? Don't you recall that, in the _'Sixties,_ the
>>> lynching of blacks and even of some Jews was still a commonplace
>>> practice?
>>> -Wilson
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>> Assuming you're referring to Goodman and Schwermer, I'd hardly call
>> lynching
>> of Jews in the Sixties a "commonplace practice."
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> And technically, IIRC, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (along
> with James Chaney, who was of course black and not a Jew) were not
> lynched, nor was Violet Liuzzo (who was neither, but another murdered
> civil rights volunteer), although other whites working alongside
> blacks during those years may well have been murdered by lynching (as
> opposed to shooting, stabbing, burning, etc.) during the era of
> voting registrations drives and freedom riding. I can't recall
> hearing about any whites (Jewish or not) who were, though.
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> Larry
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