Just finished watching this poignant and painful documentary ... We, the civilized and thoughtful among us, hope and pray, that murder because of race is behind us... we wish that the overt and condoned behavior of racially-motivated torture and killing is gone, but the ghosts and the fear still lives.
It was utterly infuriating to watch "The Last Lynching," because it isn't "ancient history." Not even two generations ago, practically yesterday. The ignorant defenders of such violence hide their craven murderous cowardice behind the claim they are "fighting for our race." Our "race" is the human race, not some narrow set of appearance, and culture. Simply put, what they did and are doing is killing innocent people for fear of losing a perceived stature of inherent superiority. Such hate and evil is driven by the most craven of inferiority complex; a hiding of insecurity and intellectual laziness behind bravado and utterly unearned sense of entitlement.
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