Read the following excerpt from Ida B. Wells's article "Lynch Law in America" (1900):
"Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an 'unwritten law' that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal."
Based on the excerpt, which of the following best describes how Wells characterizes the nature of lynching in the United States?
- It was a systematic, deliberate practice carried out with the calculated approval of community members.Cevap
- BIt was a spontaneous, emotional reaction by local mobs to a rise in violent crimes.
- CIt was a temporary, disorganized phenomenon confined to lawless individuals.
- DIt was a legitimate judicial procedure used by local law enforcement to maintain order.
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The correct answer states that lynching was a systematic, deliberate practice carried out with the calculated approval of community members.
The correct answer is correct because Ida B. Wells explicitly argues that lynching is not a spontaneous or chaotic outburst of mob anger ("not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury"). Instead, she characterizes it as a systematic, calculated practice carried out with the deliberate approval and planning of respectable ("intelligent") members of the community under an informal social consensus ("unwritten law").
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Ida B. Wells's analysis of lynching as a systematic and calculated practice of racial terror rather than spontaneous mob violence.
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