I just did a Google search with the words Toby Keith and accident and came up with this. I found a very informative site on lynchings herecaution: there are some very disturbing images). I find Toby Keith to be more complex than what can be posted in this reply box. I find the song andWillie both very interesting, althtogh i don't know what to think of Toby Keith. There does seem to be some attempt to distance lynchings of whites in the west from lynchings of blacks in the south. In Maine wher I live, there was only one lynching ever recorded, a James Cullen in 1873for the murder of Sherrif Granville Hayden and William Thomas Hubbard. Although Cullen was white the lynching shared similar traits to other lynchings: it happened in a rural area, the victim seemed to be a marginal person, he appeared to be employed as an itinerant, his body was displayed publicly. Local newspapaper reports were either outraged but didn't want to know who was involved or had no opinion. As horrible as Cullens crime was(he had murdered two men in their sleep who were offering to help him escape for a lesser crime) if this is justice, I want no part of it.

Brian