I've never heard of nooses being a "racist" concept until well into my 20's. Nooses to me mean vigilante justice, frontier justice.
And I always thought that "lynching" meant the hanging of a person or people by a mob. Apparently, it actually means a black dude getting beaten up by more than one white dude, but cannot be applied in any other way.
The Jena 6 thing is BS, and it is actually scary because of what could result in legislation from it. We already have "hate crime" (actually thought-crime) laws on the books...
The 6 students committed assault and were arrested for it. The white students who hung the nooses (whether they were aimed at the blacks or not) did not commit any actual crime. But of course, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the Hildabeast, and others convieniently ignore the fact that the "Jena 6" actually committed a crime.