Read the following excerpt from journalist and activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett’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..."
Based on the excerpt, which of the following statements best describes Ida B. Wells-Barnett's characterization of lynching?
- It was a systematic, deliberate practice condoned by society rather than a spontaneous outburst of lawless mobs.Cevap
- BIt was a temporary and disorganized phenomenon carried out primarily by uneducated, low-income mobs.
- CIt was a necessary, extralegal form of justice required to protect communities when local courts failed to act.
- DIt was an effective tool used by Southern legal authorities to ensure the swift execution of constitutional law.
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Lynching was a systematic, deliberate practice condoned by society rather than a spontaneous outburst of lawless mobs.
The correct answer explains that Ida B. Wells-Barnett describes lynching as a systematic and deliberate practice ('cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people') that was widely condoned under an 'unwritten law,' directly challenging the idea that it was merely the work of uncontrolled, spontaneous mobs.
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett's analysis of lynching as a tool of systemic racial terror