ood causes them to hesitate in giving their support to this crusade against Lynch Law, out of fear that they may encourage the miscreants whose deeds are worse than murder.” It goes on to explain blacks were lynched because the whites had the power to kill and get away with it and they prefer to kill, than taking it to court.Furthermore, according to Ida B. Wells, the excuses that whites used to justify lynch campaigns against blacks were to show the blacks that the whites are still in control. The way they try to keep that control is by falsely accusing them of rape, murders, stealing, beating and etc. They used that so they could brake the confidence of blacks. To me that just slowed down the process of blacks being equal and actually hurt the whites. The more they lynched the blacks for something they were innocent, the people realized that the lynching was done for superiority. This is the reason why white guilt is present in the society, mainly in white people....
