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Michelle Bryant: “There was roughly about nearly 5,000 reported lynchings in…”

Featuring: Michelle Bryant, Democratic | Former Candidate, Wisconsin State Senate District 6

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SAY SOMETHING REAL WITH MICHELLE BRYANT Feb. 11

Published | Video Starts at 52:06

So I looked up the. The lynchings. And so there's a period of time, and I'm looking for the exact period of time that There was roughly about nearly 5,000 reported lynchings in the United States. Of those nearly 5,000 lynchings, 70. It was either 71 or 73 were Latino. 72% of those lynchings were black people. Why do I say that? Because people keep trying to figure out a way to include everybody else in a conversation that's not their conversation right now. (52:06–52:29)

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