Lynching is alive and well in the 21st century, and in America. Only we are calling it by another name. Around 70 years ago, people would no more hesitate to take their children to watch a lynching than they would hesitate to take them to the circus. It was all the same back then - just an afternoon's entertainment. So what if someone was savagely tortured and then died? They all knew that the one being killed was somehow "not really quite human". That made it OK. Most everyone condoned it, and that made it feel very normal. But now, ...