Were Lynch Mobs Justified?

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Link to spreadsheet:
https://mega.nz/file/u9whVBBS#BmFnMaNpCYTIHd1afquTZKRL5EuobPj98Gx1b7xIJ1E

This video is 0% hate, 100% maths.

Update: A brilliant man named Aaron Dymarskiy found data on crime rates from the 1800s, which I added here:
https://mega.nz/file/f4h1QLiJ#oX4rMBerMqRyE3DJR69uyrZERGabNvg7hy0njGRKgcc
This new stuff starts on cell H98. I used data for specific crimes in the video, rather than overall prison populations. So I can’t “use it.” But it can tell how reasonable my assumption was that the Black / White in the 1800s and early 1900s were similar to 2020. The disproportionality in 2020 was 3.47, while in the lynching times, it was 3.27. So slightly lower.

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