An argument could be made that anti-lynching laws were, and are,  
redundant because it is generally against the law to kill someone.

I would also take exception to the idea that lynchings took place  
with the full support of the White community (as claimed in an  
earlier post). They may have had the support of a substantial portion  
of the local White community, but to go beyond that is unacceptable.  
And given the activities of organizations like the KKK, some/many may  
have gone along or at least not objected because they feared for  
their own safety. While, as has been pointed out lynchings did take  
place in the North, the vast majority took place in the South. And  
they were not evenly distributed across the South. To assume that all/ 
most Whites felt the non-judicial murder of Blacks was appropriate is  
racist.

James Brothers, RPA
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