Look, what some people did in Lynching (about 70% of tbe victims were non-white) is disgusting, ugly, horroble, heinous, and unquestionably WRONG.
But, in the US, over 15,000 people were killed by hanging - the vast majority were white. Some were Indian (Lincoln sentenced 39 Indians to die at once in Minnesota - the largest mass execution in US history), 17 people were sentenced ti death by hanging during tbe Salem Witch Trials, and countless people were sentnced to death by hanging in the Wild West (people were hung just for robbing back then). Americans used to throw parties at hanging executiona...sometimes even selling tickets. In 1936 in Kentucky, 20,000 people turned out to watch a man (white) hang for rape. That was the last public execution in the US. Three states still have hangjng as a legal form of execution. Three people in the 90s were executed by hanging (last one in 1996 in Delaware).
Anything can be made as a symbol for anything. However, anyone who thinks Leach is a racist, is just finding an excuse to dodge their own demons and find someone to blame and be angry about. In fact, this type of reaction usually doesn't combat racism - it often feeds it one way or the other.
Seriously, I wish we as a people would do a better job focusing on what people do right and good more often, and focusing more on helping each other rather than villifying one another.
