Congratulations, America. We’ve Outlawed Lynching in 2022.

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This week, the first week of March 2022, in a world recovering from a devastating pandemic, and amidst the backdrop of the threat of the third world war in 108 years, 157 years after slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, 67 years after Emmett Till was brutally murdered for flirting with a White woman, and after 200 attempts to put a law on the books that bans the horrific…