[PD] you can stop renaming Pd now, thanks

[Larry Troxler]

On Friday 08 August 2003 18:51, Miller Puckette wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> "Lynching" since about 1870 has commonly been understood in the U.S.
> to mean "extrajudicial killing of blacks for such offenses as associating
> with whites of the opposite sex".  I'd suggest getting off this topic
> which brings back bad memories for some.
>
> cheers
> Miller
>

Actually I didn't know that - I for one just think of "lynching" as synomynous 
with "beating". Then again, I could just be an ignorant, racist, American ;-)

Larry