Lynchings were a terrible injustice committed against the black community, and we should all be sympathetic to impact this has had on the psyche of the black community. Allowing those in power to intimidate a group of people should not be tolerated. That says, the crux of this argument lies squarely on whether or not you believe those cops paraded a black man around Galveston exclusively to send a message to other blacks. This is a difficult argument to make. Absent any evidence that this was the case, one must rely on personal biases to justify that position. I think you'd get a lot of support from even the most extreme right wingers on here if you could show this was done on purpose. To be fair, I can't find any evidence this was standard procedure, aside from what is claimed. At best, it's speculative, but it's always easier to assume incompetence or naivety.

Again, it sucks that our media is more interested in generating controversy to drive up profits than it is in reporting any objective truth. I think a lot of these tensions could be swayed if the media would do it's due diligence with these issues, instead of milking it for what it's worth.

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