The lynchings that took place in the 19th century are examples of subjective violence. Its examples of subjective violence because we know that it was the white people lynching the black people to protect their women and children. The purpose of the violent lynchings is because the white men wanted to protect their women and children from being raped and killed by the black men. the white men saw themselves as victims not as the ones that were dangerous and doing harm to the real victims.The lynching were so popular that they are basically a sport , so its like a football games in our time. the exact crowd that attends the professional football games is the sames as the crowd that attends the lynching. they will cheer as the men or women was being burned to death, then collect the pieces of the burned body and save it as a memorbilia. the connection to "punishment" is very noticable because the person that is being lynched is being punished for something that the white people felt like they are guilty for. In the 19th century , there was not really any racial identity in the United States. if you were Puerto Rican or Brazilian or anything else, and you told someone from the United States you were anything other then white or black , they would not know what you were talking about. You were either black or white and thats about it.