The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites being lynched between 1882 and 1968, with the annual peak occurring in the late 1800s. In many photos of lynchings at the turn of the century, onlookers and members of the mob can be seen smiling and grinning for the camera. They demonstrate no fear of prosecution or reprisal. They had none. For no white man was ever punished for a lynching until 1915. By then, there had been thousands of lynchings in the South alone with certainly hundreds of thousands of spectators. In the few cases that came to trial, all-white juries generally never convicted a white man of lynching a black.
Today, rather than white onlookers of lynchings, it is black eyewitness and spectators recording the murders of their love ones at the hands of white police officers, - and need I say black folk are not grinning for the camera! In black communities throughout the nation where contentious relationships between black people and the white police exist, it is highly doubtful that the new Attorney General Loretta Lynch will be anymore effective in curtailing these murders than her predecessor Eric Holder. As history has already taught us, - despite hundreds and perhaps thousands of white witnesses to Negro hangings and lynchings, no white person, mob or Klansmen has ever been prosecuted for these murders. Is it any different today when in the bright of daylight with video and witnesses present white police officers murder unarmed blacks?
The police killings of unarmed and innocent blacks will continue until the President of the United States and any Attorney General he appoints either outlaws or modifies the State District Attorney’s and County Prosecutors ability to exercise unfettered discretionary power to cherry pick evidence then allow Grand Jurors to convene in secret with the DA or County Prosecutors selected evidence. In other words, the only way to exonerate Officer Darren Wilson is to first ignore all eyewitness testimony and adopt any interpretation of the coroner’s findings that are favorable to Officer Wilson. For example, arguing that the gunshot wound in Brown’s hand was the result of Brown grappling with Wilson to obtain the Officer’s weapon, when in fact as some have stated the wound could have also been sustained due to Brown’s defensive posture, (Hands up).
This is precisely what is happening nationwide that is allowing white police officers to get away with murdering innocent and unarmed black people. Today, the law is the rope and police bullets is how blacks are killed, - either way, black people are just as dead as they were in 1890 hanging from a tree with a rope around their necks! President Obama, Eric Holder and Lorretta Lynch, all graduates from prestigious universities with degrees in law know this. All of them have seen or read about the Ferguson killing of Michael Brown, the choking death in New York, the shooting in SC, the shooting at an Ohio Wal-Mart and the shooting in the back of a black Utah teenager to mention just a few. With all three of them being black lawyers, this raises a variety of questions relative to the protection of black people from unjustified and wanton murder by the police. Beginning with the first African American President and Attorney General both of whom have stated publicly their prioritized interest in protecting Americans from terrorism, - but have been powerless in their ability to protect African American citizens from murder at the hands of the police. Why then did the President appoint another African American with the same proclamations about terrorism and more importantly, what assurances will Lorretta Lynch provide African American citizens as it relates to the persistent and inexcusable shootings of African American citizens?
Why is Eric Holder quitting? Why did he go to Ferguson when he knew he would not remain Attorney General long enough to bring change to African American communities under siege by the white police? Is he leaving to purse a lucrative position as a political lobby or will he be joining a consulting firm or pursue chairmanship at a school of law at a prestigious university? Whatever his reasons for leaving may be, what I do know is that Dr. King didn’t quit, nor did Fredrick Douglas, James Meredith, Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X and numerous other black pioneers who all fought to the end even under the threat of death. I expect little or nothing from Lorretta Lynch as it relates to establishing policy and enacting consequences for police officers that murder unarmed innocent black people. It looks like her appointment and/or elevation to Attorney General amounts to window dressing for the black community and business in real time blackface for white people.
Great commentary my brotha! But just like folks TOLD me when my son was murdered by the HANDS of his own people[during the height of black on black murder].......SOMEBODY GOT TO BE THE SACRIFICE.
Which this sacrifice of our black youth CONTINUED for another decade or so...EVEN with a boatload of witnesses. 
Hal. La. Lu. Yer. Somebody finally on the same page. Cuz I have been screaming this for years on deaf ears in the black community. As anything socially dysfuntional, its hard to see it up close and most always there is the willingness to look on the outside to blame.
GTFOH!!! This is a deliberate distraction from the truth[wonder who is paying him to say this?