It's interesting that these reenactments featured black men in white masks. What, they could've find some guilt-ridden white liberals to play the role of the evil KKK'ers? Bet they never even asked around.
If they are Democrats, they should be guilt-ridden.
Like I say, lynchings, race repression, race murder, all of this is Democrat history. We should have no problem about reenacting any of it as long as everyone understands that the guys holding the ropes are Democrats.
As someone else pointed out, Roosevelt opposed anti-lynching legislation. I think people need to be reminded of that. The other Democrat icon of the 20th century, Woodrow Wilson, brought race repression into federal law. It was repealed later by a Republican president.
The Democrats have a lot to be ashamed of. You can't blame them for wanting to run from their history, if that was my history I'd run from it too.
We should never let ourselves be put in the position of defending or excusing Democrat history.