Thesis Statement For Mass Shootings

It’s the middle of the night, Hank, a black man is lying in bed after a long day of work. He is resting his tired body, on the verge of sleeping, when a pounding at the door wakes him immediately. He gets up to check the door. As he approaches the door, he can hear yelling and derogatory terms. He opens the door and a mob of people are waiting for him outside, holding signs and yelling. He’s confused, he’s just minding his own business and trying to make it in the world. They’re screaming at him, accusing him of outrageous actions. Hank’s daughter walks up behind him holding his leg. He shut the door but that just made the crowd louder. She asks him what’s happening outside but he just quickly says nothing and sends her back to bed. Hank grabs the phone and starts to dial 9-1-1 but before he can finish …show more content…
Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black. The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7% of the people lynched.” People went on a crazy killing spree for about 86 years in the United States. These are only the reported lynches, so even those these are big numbers, there were many unreported. The other 27.3% of the lynchings were of white people but most of them were lynched because they helped black people or were anti lynching. All of this lynching started because after the Civil War slaves were no longer property and had freedom but some white people thought that the newly freed slaves had “too much freedom” and “needed to be controlled”. People were scared, they were scared of the change that the freedom of slaves would bring. Conformity was huge in this time because if someone was to speak out against the lynchings or try and stop them they would end up getting lynched. So rather than doing what is right and calling the police or trying to put a stop to it people conformed and went along with it. Which happens quite a lot in history, if you think about