A fake lynching scandal promoted by ‘Squad’ members is one result. Over the past few weeks, we have heard a lot more about “lynching” than a normal person might have expected in 2026. Left-wing “Squad” member and Massachusetts Representative Ayanna Pressley recently used her website and the House.gov resource to demand “a thorough, transparent, and comprehensive federal investigation into the numerous incidents of Black people found hanging across the country.” Somewhat astonishingly, Pressley claims not only that there have been at least ten probable lynchings of black folks in 2026 but also that a recent think tank analysis “documented more than 70 modern-day lynchings in the United States.” [snip] The prestige media also apparently cannot get enough of the claim that there is an epidemic of posse hangings. Per U.S. News & World Report, recent re-exposure to “the imagery of a rope and noose” has badly traumatized black Americans: “It invokes the legacy of lynching and vigilante violence against Black people . . . and brings with it deep pain.” Simply seeing a picture of a rope tied in a hangman’s knot can allegedly invoke this pain: Following the actual hanging death of a popular young Mississippi woman named Tasia Fortune, Brad Franklin, of Jackson, Miss., argued that “Black folks down here in 2026 — we are feeling and experiencing some of the same things we felt in 1956 and 1966, and that should not be happening.” We heard similar sentiments expressed in Cobb County, Ga. Lisa Cupid, a Cobb County Commission chairwoman quoted by U.S. News, said that the recent death of a 21-year-old African-American male named Kyle Bassinga made “many . . . think of the days of slavery and of Jim Crow” — whether or not any foul play would ever be proven. Speaking from Congress, in the context of both of these cases and a few others, the previously mentioned Representative Pressley thundered: “In this moment of anti-Blackness and emboldened white supremacy, we cannot stand idly by — while the strange fruit of Black bodies hangs from the trees!” [snip] The $64,000 question, after a few back-and-forth reads like the articles just discussed, is pretty simple: Is the United States actually facing a contemporary epidemic of lynchings? The answer is no, obviously not. According to the best quantitative database that tracks historical rates of lynching and posse murder — which is maintained by a prominent historically black university — the last American lynching took place in 1968. Despite multiple requests, the list has not been updated since that year. As McWhorter points out, not one single white homicide suspect has been identified in any of the hanging cases that became nationally prominent this year. In the best-known case, that of Tasia Fortune, three suspects have already been identified and arrested. All are black men with extensive criminal histories. [snip] Similar results obtained in the case of Nolan Wells, a genuinely tragic situation — which was racialized and made worse by all parties on the internet — involving a young athlete who appears to have died from drowning at a seaside party destination popular with older teenagers. Despite pervasive rumors that he had been attacked or even murdered by members of his mostly Caucasian friend group, the grand jury that was empaneled in the case found “no credible evidence” to support the widespread public claims that any of these people “engaged in any criminal conduct related to the death of Mr. Wells.” Instead, the report from the unanimous jury stated that Wells’s cause of death was “consistent with drowning,” based on where his body was found and on multiple autopsies. After the panel delivered its decision, District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath publicly criticized the environment that had been allowed to develop around the case. “The family, the Crump [legal defense] team, and anyone close to Nolan,” she said in a video statement, “knew that his disappearance and death were not the result of racial hate or violence.” [snip] In addition, there’s no reason whatsoever to believe — especially in the wake of the public frenzies we all witnessed during the past few years — that modern American police departments are populated with knuckle-dragging racists, eager to excuse or facilitate mob violence against helpless minorities. Per my AI scan of past survey data and the records of departmental demographics that are publicly available, policing is one of the most racially integrated professions in the U.S. [snip] Essentially, we are being asked to believe that decorated black and Hispanic peace officers are working with the Ku Klux Klan (or some similar group) to hide nearly a dozen fatal lynchings in 2026. Occam’s ye olde Razor suggests an alternative possibility: Today, the demand for racism greatly exceeds the supply, and this has predictable economic consequences. (*) Full article: https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/10/what-happens-when-the-demand-for-racism-exceeds-the-supply/ Post navigation French Woman DROPS THE MIC on Failed Multiculturalism Colorado police sergeant reveals how human traffickers target vulnerable children: ‘Happening in our backyard’
