| Hair – Three-Five-Zero-Zero Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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http://www.chesnuttarchive.org/classroom/lynchingstat.html It seems more likely in the context of the song that is comes from the historical number of black lynchings without a single conviction. See e.g. google post:Throughout the late 19th century racial tension grew throughout the United States. More of this tension was noticeable in the Southern parts of the United States. In the south, people were blaming their financial problems on the newly freed slaves that lived around them. Lynchings were becoming a popular way of resolving some of the anger that whites had in relation to the free blacks. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black. "Lynching Statistics 1882-1968" ( suggest that surreal lyric would round this number off) |
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