Senator "Public Hanging"

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Irony Visits The Senate In The Form Of An Anti-Lynching Bill

As Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith presided, Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker got the Senate to agree to make lynching a federal crime for the first time in history.
By Karoli Kuns

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That's right. Senator "Public Hanging."

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https://crooksandliars.com/2018/12/irony-visits-senate-form-anti-lynching

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1. Well done. Not before time.

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2. She probably doesn't get it.

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10. gritting her teeth?

She had to face Harris and Booker while they put the bill forward. Wonder what she was thinking then.

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3. But will the Orange Turd sign it? His base probably doesn't support this.

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4. Clearly a Trump trap. If he signs this, his approval rating could sink below 20%. nt

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5. Funny but true, which makes it sad.

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6. Will Hyde-Smith filibuster it?

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8. i want to see it in the House

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7. Public hangings are not necessarily "lynching" by definition.

A lynching is any kind of extrajudicial assassination.

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9. you do see the irony, though, right?

The last legal public hanging in the U.S. took place in my home state in 1936:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainey_Bethea

Just what public hanging was Hyde-Smith expecting to be invited to attend?

Some extra info on lynching:

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the lynching of Black people in the Southern and border states became an institutionalized method used by whites to terrorize Blacks and maintain white supremacy. In the South, during the period 1880 to 1940, there was deep-seated and all-pervading hatred and fear of the Negro which led white mobs to turn to “lynch law” as a means of social control. Lynchings—open public murders of individuals suspected of crime conceived and carried out more or less spontaneously by a mob—seem to have been an American invention. In Lynch-Law, the first scholarly investigation of lynching, written in 1905, author James E. Cutler stated that “lynching is a criminal practice which is peculiar to the United States.”1

Most of the lynchings were by hanging or shooting, or both. However, many were of a more hideous nature—burning at the stake, maiming, dismemberment, castration, and other brutal methods of physical torture. Lynching therefore was a cruel combination of racism and sadism, which was utilized primarily to sustain the caste system in the South. Many white people believed that Negroes could only be controlled by fear. To them, lynching was seen as the most effective means of control.

http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.04.x.html