Originally Posted by loganrbt
Some 3400 black men, women, and children were lynched in this country.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html

This is compared to fewer than 3,000 people who died on September 11, 2001.

More than 3,000 Americans have died EVERY MONTH in each of the last 14 years on our roads and highways, 560,000 men, women, and children of all races.
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

We killed 100,000 Japanese in two days in 1945.
http://www.uic.com.au/nip29.htm

And we now have sacrificed more than 4,000 Americans in Iraq in search of justice against our enemies, not to mention the more than 80,000 Iraqi civilian casualties in that same period.
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

And we have the temerity to lay on Rev. Wright's shoulders the mantle of hate and un-American thought? We have lost all perspective on the meaning of loss.

I had no idea it was supposed to be a contest, loganrbt.;-)
Yours,
Issodhos

"When all has been said that can be said, and all has been done that can be done, there will be poetry";-) -- Issodhos