The Black Panthers and the Jasper Lynching

I suspect that Alex read some headlines about how the town was scared about more violence occurring because the Klan decided that they wanted to do a rally in Jasper. I have a feeling that Alex just came up with a story in his head that allowed him to minimize the gravity of this actual lynching. He's heavily invested in not believing that racist white people exist. And if by some unimaginable fluke one does exist, there one to one balanced out by a racist black person. Of course, the tragedy is that this lack of evidence that of this other murder happening, it wouldn't hurt the audience's faith in Alex's narrative. The lack of evidence would simply be proof of how good the cover