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Chapter 27. Violence and Intimidation 569
of whites, belief that the Negro is rising, sex jealousy, boredom on the
part of the lower strata of the white population. The local police are often
known to be on the side of the whites. The breaking point is caused by
a crime or rumor of crime by a Negro against a white person, or by the
attempt of a Negro to claim a legal right. The effects of riots may be
even more harmful to amicable race relations than are those of lynching.
Whites do not feel the twinge of bad conscience which they have when they
have lynched helpless and unresisting Negroes. The feelings of fear and
insecurity on the part of the whites are only increased when some of their
own number have been killed or injured. The memory of a riot is much
longer than that of a lynching, for both whites and Negroes. Their devasta-
tion and relative fewness make them landmarks in history.
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