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Mobs and Lynchings After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I can conclude that people can over exaggerate things and take them too far. I came to this conclusion by reading from the article, which stated that people or peoples belongings have been damaged after riots occur. The victims of these riots often do not deserve what happened to them (Edmonds). This shows that people go beyond what is right in these mobs and lynchings. “Lynchings are a bunch of hands not brains”, this quote was from the radio diaries and it proves that when people are not thinking but just doing which could lead to many people getting hurt or in this case dying (Strange Fruit: Anniversary of a Lynching). In the lynching picture we can see many people just
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