Today marks the ten years since the brutal murder of James Byrd Jr., the African American man who was chained to a pick-up truck in Jasper, Texas, and dragged behind it for three miles until his body disintegrated. One of Byrd’s murderers, John King, had a tattoo depicting a black man hanging from a tree, and several other racist neo-Nazi tattoos. It was the most vicious racially motivated murder since the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till.