http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2364493/NAACP-convention-held-just-miles-site-George-Zimmerman-trial-unofficial-Justice-For-Trayvon-rally.htmlModern Day Lynching.
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No, it's not.
West: A lynching is what happens when the posse captures the outrageously offensive criminal who ran away after committing his act.
South: A lynching is what happens when the spook hats get put on and the latest uppity knee-grow is abducted from his home and hung out in the swamp.
The jury decided in this case, that Martin was the criminal. And Z was the victim. Z avoided Martin's lethal attack by employing lethal force of his own, making it justified homicide. This is what the jury said.
Even if we invert the sentence and consider Z the criminal and Martin the victim (contrary to the verdict), it's still not a lynching. Martin was killed in a violent altercation he willingly engaged in, as evidenced by the bullet in the front of his body (not in the back).
Regardless of western or southern inflection, a lynching needs a rope, a mob or posse, and a captured lynchee. Didn't have any of those.
This is race-baiting on the highest level. At what point does the "Uncle Tom" vernacular start coming out to augment the lynching vernacular? Maybe some Negro Jim talk, too. I'm sure someone, somewhere, has a Sambo doll to throw into the mix.