Red Record Ideas

In the text Red Record by Ida B. Wells, Wells discusses what lynching was and what was happening to African Americans post Civil War. In the text Red Record the terms "Negro Domination", anarchy, and sadism come up. The idea of  "Negro Domination" is that Southern white men considered that no Negroes had rights that the white man had to respect and acknowledge. Southern white men felt this way because of the fear they had that African Americans were going to advance in society and overthrow them. Ida B. Wells expresses the idea of anarchy, the absence of government, or lawlessness and disorganization in a society, by showing how the Southern whites were taking the law into their own hands The U.S government at the time did nothing to stop this and didn't even bother to punish the white m. African Americans were being lynched for almost any offense and no evidence was required.en and women who were lynching the African Americans at the time. The term sadism means to get pleasure out of watching pain being inflicted by others or enjoying inflicting the pain themselves. Groups like the Klu Klux Klan, the regulators, and the lawless mobs all would chose to either murder one man or dozen because they felt it supported their cause.