The only minister I found who came close to opposing both lynching and white supremacy was Quincy Ewing. In his book Christ, Jack Miles makes a revealing comment: “The crucifix is a violently obscene icon. To recover its visceral power, children of the twenty-first century must imagine a lynching, the body of the victim swollen and distorted, his head hanging askew above a broken neck, while the bystanders smile their twisted smiles”
