I think we could probably get even a snarky message across with the chair without invoking lynching. sorry but the image is pretty evocative.
Oh, please, just stop. Evocative of what, exactly? Something that any blacks today experienced themselves? I'm sick to death of tiptoeing around so people don't get their feelings hurt. If it's unpleasant to them, that's really tough, but life can be unpleasant. We've had enough of making federal cases out of sensitive racial feelings.
its a LAWN CHAIR