article_snippet: Or is it a lynching -- a shadow from the South's history of racial violence re-emerging?
article_snippet: Lucas, who is himself African-American, said Friday that himself's worried people will jump to the conclusion that Byrd was murdered and that race was a factor.
article_snippet: I don't want the community to go excited saying the community was a white-on-black thing.
article_snippet: is people making it into a race issue," Lucas said.