After more than a century of trying, Congress passes an anti-lynching bill

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gemini104104

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WASHINGTON — Congress gave final approval Monday to legislation that for the first time would make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S., sending the bill to President Joe Biden to sign into law.

Years in the making, the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is among some 200 bills that have been introduced over the past century that have tried to ban lynching in America.

It is named for the Black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi in 1955 — and his mother's insistence on a open funeral casket to show the world what had been done to her child — became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights era.

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"After more than 200 failed attempts to outlaw lynching, Congress is finally succeeding in taking a long overdue action by passing the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y."

I am in shock for this longtime coming act of Congressional justice happening when it comes to declaring that lynching of anyone has become a federal hate crime infraction in the U.S. I also wonder how many so-called republicans voted in favor of this bill versus them who voted against it. I hope the spirits Emmit Till and his mother continue to rest in peace as a result of Justice of America eventually not letting them down over the barbaric act that violence had on them back in those days.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/07/1085...-trying-congress-passes-an-anti-lynching-bill
 
Jack said:
I'm not sure people are hanging other people at this time?
Isn't murder illegal?
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Of course. They wanted to make lynching a hate crime if it's due to race. It's an enhancement. As you have read the article, they tried to lynch a black man.
 
AProudLefty said:
Of course. They wanted to make lynching a hate crime if it's due to race. It's an enhancement. As you have read the article, they tried to lynch a black man.
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Well. I did read the Article. Didn't see anything about "they tried to lynch a black man".
 
Jack said:
Well. I did read the Article. Didn't see anything about "they tried to lynch a black man".
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In an interview with NPR he said the men beat him, spit at him, pinned him to a tree, shouted racial slurs at him, then called for someone to "get a noose."
 
AProudLefty said:
In an interview with NPR he said the men beat him, spit at him, pinned him to a tree, shouted racial slurs at him, then called for someone to "get a noose."
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"Only part of that confrontation was captured on video, but in most versions available on social media Booker can be seen on his knees as a white man later identified as Sean Purdy holds his head down, pinning him to a tree. Several people can be heard urging Purdy to release Booker, while Purdy refuses."

Looks like one guy is having a scuffle with another guy and the two girls are telling him to stop. There's a picture.
Course, you could gin this up and call it a 'Lynching' if you want.
 
Jack said:
"Only part of that confrontation was captured on video, but in most versions available on social media Booker can be seen on his knees as a white man later identified as Sean Purdy holds his head down, pinning him to a tree. Several people can be heard urging Purdy to release Booker, while Purdy refuses."

Looks like one guy is having a scuffle with another guy and the two girls are telling him to stop. There's a picture.
Course, you could gin this up and call it a 'Lynching' if you want.
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Not calling it a lynching. More like an attempt or they wanted to.

The point is that, IIRC, it is the reason for the bill. Doesn't matter if lynching didn't happen recently, it's for the future. More than likely just a symbolic move to condemn racism.
 
It should have happened the day after that sham Mississippi 1955 type so-called trial atrocity against justice, and in particular to which the woman who accused Emmit of whistling at her she after years confessed that it was a lie. Yet, I suppose it's better late than never, which gives more power that Justice of America eventually did not let the memory of Emmit and his mother down and for them to truly rest in peace. Thanks Team Biden in particular. The South was very backward, uncivilized, and barbaric of those days which represented their so-called confederate and jim crow culture of also being deplorable hypocrites who are probably in hell now after rotting in their jim crow and segregated bigot graves.
 
AProudLefty said:
Not calling it a lynching. More like an attempt or they wanted to.

The point is that, IIRC, it is the reason for the bill. Doesn't matter if lynching happened recently, it's for the future. More than likely just a symbolic move to condemn racism.
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It didn't seem like there was a 'they' there.

But, back to Gem104 point:
"The bill would make it possible to prosecute a crime as a lynching when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury, according to the bill's champion, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill. The maximum sentence under the Anti-Lynching Act is 30 years."

His link gives you the person behind the Bill, Bobby Rush, ex Black Panther. Any good Revolutionary wants some street cred put on his Headstone.

"Bobby L. Rush
@RepBobbyRush
52 years ago today, the American government carried out a planned political assassination of one of our nation's brightest young leaders.

Fred Hampton was my best friend and comrade, the Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party".
 
gemini104104 said:
It should have happened the day after that sham Mississippi 1955 type so-called trial atrocity against justice, and in particular to which the woman who accused Emmit of whistling at her she after years confessed that it was a lie. Yet, I suppose it's better late than never, which gives more power that Justice of America eventually did not let the memory of Emmit and his mother down and for them to truly rest in peace. Thanks Team Biden in particular. The South was very backward, uncivilized, and barbaric of those days which represented their so-called confederate and jim crow culture of also being deplorable hypocrites who are probably in hell now after rotting in their jim crow and segregated bigot graves.
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John McWhorter says 'Blacks miss the 1960s'.
 
Jack said:
It didn't seem like there was a 'they' there.
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"They" are two white men.

But, back to Gem104 point:
"The bill would make it possible to prosecute a crime as a lynching when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury, according to the bill's champion, Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill. The maximum sentence under the Anti-Lynching Act is 30 years."

His link gives you the person behind the Bill, Bobby Rush, ex Black Panther. Any good Revolutionary wants some street cred put on his Headstone.

"Bobby L. Rush
@RepBobbyRush
52 years ago today, the American government carried out a planned political assassination of one of our nation's brightest young leaders.

Fred Hampton was my best friend and comrade, the Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party".
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I think I see your point. He's saying that the bill makes it possible to prosecute anyone for hate crime even if it doesn't involve a lynching.
 
AProudLefty said:
"They" are two white men.



I think I see your point. He's saying that the bill makes it possible to prosecute anyone for hate crime even if it doesn't involve a lynching.
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'My point' ... is that an aging ex Revolutionary is trying to DO SOMETHING that was important 50 years ago ... but is somewhat irrelevant now.
---> Makes us all 'warm and fuzzy'.
 
Jack said:
'My point' ... is that an aging ex Revolutionary is trying to DO SOMETHING that was important 50 years ago ... but is somewhat irrelevant now.
---> Makes us all 'warm and fuzzy'.
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Well then like I said it's a symbolic gesture. Basically they're saying, "Fuck you racists and fuck racism".
 
I am also glad I am alive to witness this U.S. event of Justice vindicating the barbaric death of Emmit and the horrible grief his mother suffered and other loved and friends that experienced that terrible event in U.S. history.
 
Jack said:
John McWhorter says 'Blacks miss the 1960s'.
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Actually, how would you describe a black person in American when about 70% of Americans are of a mixed racial lineage going back over 200 years, which includes Native American, Afro American, Asian American, Caribbean Americans, Pacific Islander Americans, Central and South Americans and Eruopean Americans, in particular, at the U.S. being a multicultural nation who all combined serve the U.S. GDP and global economy at over $4 trillion per annum?
 
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