if lynching was racist, bullets were, too—plus the taxi test; or the ignorance of Oprah and Forrest Whitaker

I had wanted to see The Butler, but I want to see it less now, because the ignorance of its creators is impressive.

Oprah Winfrey said of the word "nigger", "I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree." According to the Tuskegee Institute count of lynchings between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 black people were lynched, and 1,297 white people were lynched. Which is 4,743 too many, but far from millions.

Lynching became disproportionately...