In commemoration of its 50th season, "60 Minutes" has invited Oprah Winfrey as a temporary host for the classic Sunday evening show. In the latest episode, we followed Mama O as she visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. The site serves as a memorial for the victims of lynching. Predictably, the profound segment drew ire from some white viewers claiming the subject was divisive.

The museum, which is slated to open to the public April 26, features over 4,000 names engraved on 805 steel markers for lynching victims.

“We wanted people to have a sense of just the scale of what this violence, what this terrorism was,” said Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, who is responsible for the museum's creation.

Stevenson's team researched the killings of about 4,300 people but still acknowledge there are many more that went undocumented. To Oprah's dismay, she learned that men were not the only victims of lynching; there were women lynched, as well. In some cases, those women were pregnant. 

“Sometimes because they were accused of something and then, sometimes, women would be lynched if they couldn’t find the man they were looking for, they would lynch that man’s wife or daughter or child,” Stevenson explained.

While many praised "60 Minutes" for boldly reporting about the racialized violence in American history, others thought it should focus on Chicago's gun violence. 

Facebook user Richard Rice's comment was picked from the conservative talking points handbook:

But Rice wasn't the only one who felt fragile about the episode. Victoria Meyer claims that this memorial is no different than Confederate memorials. She says that she is okay with the lynching memorial but asks why is it okay to keep one over the other.

For Melanie Ahlquist, the lynchings were carried out by racists Democrats and "60 Minutes" simply refused to say that.

But the award for most outlandish comment comes from Steve Karsten who ties Rev. Al Sharpton to the report. 

It is sad when the truth hurts so badly you grasp at straws.