I think it is well beyond the time when we as a society need to understand that certain words (lynching among them) are just words. If you want to see racial u

I think it is well beyond the time when we as a society need to understand that certain words (lynching among them) are just words. If you want to see racial undertones when the word was used in a different context, that's your choice. It's no longer part of the meaning of the word, just like ghetto does not refer to the area of Germany where Jews were forced to live.