Complex sentence: Sometimes the newts are shown in the same manner as the blacks, like when a white woman claims to having been raped by one of them: in spite of the physical impossibility of the act, people believe her and carry on newt lynchings.
Split into simpler sentences: Sometimes the newts are shown in the same manner as the blacks, as when a white woman claims to have been raped by one of them. In spite of the physical impossibility of the act, people believe her and carry out newt lynchings.