I'll do my part

...to get this story out there (via Horatio):

I don't think there was anything racial about it. These guys were
drinking, and this guy [Johnson] liked to dance. I'm not surprised when they get
to drinking and use the n-word. The black boy was somewhere he shouldn't have
been, although they brought him out there.
Note that the "boy" is 42 years old.
Witt also reports on what seem to be two relatively
fresh lynchings, neither leading to prosecution:
There was the case in 1994 when a black man who had been dating a white woman was found dead from a gunshot to the groin. And another in 2001, when a black man who had been dating a white woman was found hanging from a tree. Local officials ruled the first case a hunting accident and the second a suicide, despite the persistent doubts of family members and civil rights officials.

As they say, read the whole thing. Only by knowing can we stop the insanity.