Curtis Gatewood is currently the field director of the North Carolina NAACP.  He has described the killing of mass murderer Micah X. Johnson by the Dallas Police as a ‘lynching’: Make no mistake, by taking this Black ‘suspect’ and demonizing and using a killer robot to blow him up in this unprecedented and barbaric manner and without a trial in a court of law is the truest and most literal example yet of a high-tech lynching. In the period 1882 through 1964, according to the archives at the Tuskegee Institute, 4,742 American citizens were lynched.  Each and every one was a captive, executed, often tortured, without any due process of law legitimizing their sentence of death by mob.  Of those, 3,445 were black and 1,297 were white.  The majority of them, black and white, were Republicans.  The Ku Klux Klan, the terror wing of the Democratic Party, used lynching in the South as a political tool to: ...put black people back...(Read Full Article)