>In 2003 alone 6,912 Blacks were murdered in the United
>States, and between 1990 and 2000, about 10,000 Blacks
>were killed each year, mostly in gang- or drug related
>incidents
><http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract.html>http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract.html
>tables 298 and 300).
Those tables show nothing but raw numbers. The "mostly in gang or drug related incidents" cannot be drawn from them. For a breakdown on circumstances of homicide that's based on something real you have to go the Bureau of Justice Statistics. And even their stuff is fraught with complications.
Here's an example of what they come up with. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm
Nor do we really know how many people were victims of lynching:
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html
I think the comparison between lynching and gang killings is specious to begin with, so I'm not posting this in that context. I just know you like to be careful with statistics.