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I'll do more than "imply." I'll give you a name -- a name which Takei, and every other American, ought to know well: Leo Frank. In 1913-1915, he was the centerpiece of America's answer to the Dreyfuss affair.Trump compared the impeachment process to a “lynching”—to which I have two responses.— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 22, 2019
One, don’t even try and imply that rich, white men were ever lynched by angry mobs in this country. Vile.
Two, it’s not a lynching if Nancy Pelosi just gives you enough rope to hang yourself.
Granted, Frank wasn't truly rich -- not by Gilded Age standards, and not by current standards. But he was quite well off compared to most others in his time and place, and resentment of his relatively elevated status was a factor in his lynching. Of course, anti-Semitism was the primary reason the citizenry became convinced that he had murdered Mary Phagan.
It should be noted that he was convicted on the testimony of a black man named Jim Conley, who probably was the actual killer. Tom Watson, a socialist-turned-right-wing-conspiracy-theorist, whipped up a media frenzy against Frank; I consider Watson a spiritual forerunner to Alex Jones.
The 1988 television film The Murder of Mary Phagan (starring Jack Lemmon) is largely accurate and very engrossing. It's online.
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