Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past five years, over a dozen whites have escaped conviction for fatal or near-fatal assaults against unarmed, solitary blacks. Of those who have been apprehended for these crimes, several have stood trial posing as the sole perpetrators of mob acts which involved scores of people. Approximately 10 whites were arrested at East Boston's most recent demonstration-cum-riot; only five whites were arrested in connection with the firebombing of a black family in East Boston last year. In both cases, observers estimated crowds of over 200 participants...
When compared with the harsh punishments meted out to blacks who commit crimes against whites, these responses to white crimes are no more than handslaps. No one, including black leaders, advocates a relaxation of standards for punishing violence--especially mob violence--for any group, but the law must be equitably enforced. Otherwise, there is no deterrent for would-be attackers, who will feel free to stone buses, overturn cars, and participate in attacks on innocent passersby like that on a Harvard student last week...
...says with more conviction, "there really was that sense of purpose." It was in this spirit that the Justice Department sent Seigenthaler to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1961 to protect the freedom riders, who were protesting segregation in the south. While trying to save three women riders from a "mob attack" he was hit with an iron pipe and knocked unconscious...
...Borgias. (The Catholic immigrants, flocking together in a consciousness of their own differences, and with some desire to preserve them, seemed to confirm nativist fears.) When Pope Pius IX in the 1840s followed the example of European monarchs and sent a block of marble for the Washington Monument, a mob threw it into the Potomac. Through the 1850s, the violently antipapist Know-Nothing Party flourished, to be supplanted in succeeding generations by the Ku Klux Klan, which went after Catholics as well as Jews and blacks...
...Judge and The Assassin ends with a cinematic non sequitur; a strike breaks out in a never-before-mentioned-factory, Isabelle Huppert, last seen as the sodomized mistress of Rousseau, now appears as an aspiring diva, singing Bouvier's favorite ballad-off-key, and the entire striking mob is bathed in a Hallmark card glow. The police prepare to shoot and the screen goes black as these significant words appear: "in the year that Joseph Bouvier killed twelve children, 16,000 died in the mines of France." Both facts are terrible; is Tavernier suggesting that Bouvier should not have been...