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In 1913, a mob in Georgia broke into a prison and lynched a Jewish man imprisoned there. The next day, the local newspaper headline read "The Next Jew Who Does What Frank Did Is Going To Get Exactly The Same Thing We Give To Negro Rapists." The turn against Jews wasn't just social- it was backed up by the bullshit race science of the day.

Wow, the chutzpah is strong. He blames the conviction and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank on race science. I don't see how this is related to the trial at all which while a contentious trial at the time the only other suspect was the Black factor aide, Jim Conley. If he is saying that Leo Frank is innocent, the only possibility is Jim Conley because he was alleged to have written the murder notes found on the body of Mary Phagan in the basement of the pencil factory.

  • Has a history of unwanted sexual advances on women in the factory.
  • Denied ever knowing Mary Phagan, but then admitting he had lunch with her at noon at the day of the murder. Frank also blames former factory employee, John Gantt, who supposedly had a sexual relationship with Mary Phagan.
  • Three separate juries found him guilty of murder and five Jews were on the grand jury that convicted him.
  • If White people were evil racists, shouldn't they have convicted Jim Conley of murder instead because he fit like every negative Black stereotype and also had a weird habit of pooping in elevator shafts. If people were so biased toward Blacks at the time, how did they convict Leo Frank for murder?