When I first saw the headline, "Activists Seek Action in 58-Year Old Lynching Case in Georgia", my first idea was that they wanted some sort of memorial for someone who had been murdered...I forgot that its 2005, race relations and the status of minorities have been improving for decades and thus the race-baiters need to reach back quite a ways to find things to keep hate alive.

...dozens of politicians, activists and relatives of the victims are pressing a local prosecutor to use the FBI's original investigation to seek indictments against the few surviving suspects in the deaths of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey.

Leaving aside the difficulty in actually finding genuine evidence from a 58 year old murder (a murder done back in the day when even a good murder investigation would have missed all sorts of evidence we take for granted today); leave aside the fact that you can't really execute justice upon someone 58 years after their crime (they've already lived their lives, there is no punishment you can really do, no restitution you can make to people dead more than half a century); leave aside the fact that only two of the original 55 suspects are still alive...leave all that aside, and try to consider what use such a prosecution would have in the year 2005.

The only use it would have would be to give a political platform for those who must convince the American people that race relations are as bad as ever; the race-baiters must do this in order to keep themselves on the guilt-tripped gravy train.

Honor the dead with a memorial; teach the story as a lesson in what happens when racism is allowed free reign...but don't dig up the graveyard looking for an old, bloody shirt for demagogues to wave.