Lynching is still present against blacks and is state sanctioned. Sure, it's more limited and disguised, but the methodology is the same. One of the latest examples is in October 2022 when a black man was chased by two white men in rural Mississippi. The sheriff, a representative of state sanctioning power, said there was nothing out of the ordinary when they found the black man dead in the woods. He classified it as "a natural death." The only problem: no natural death of a young black man I know of is like this one: His head was found a few feet from his body and other body parts were found nearby in a third area. Another lynching of a black man was calssfied as "suicide" by a different Mississippi sheriff. Clearly to my sensibilities at least, a young black man hanging from a tree in front of a white man's home looks a bit "unnatural" to say the least. Sure, historically speaking the last lynching occurred in 1981. But I hardly think it has stopped, as least judging by the headless bodies.