Earl (02-27-2020)
In the recesses of my middle-aged brain I knew this. But I had forgotten. 200 bills have been submitted over however many years. They finally passed the final today. Gee, aren't we proud?
It was not until 2018 that the Senate would pass (unanimously) anti-lynching legislation, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act. On February 26, 2020, the House of Representatives passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, a revised version of the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, by a vote of 410-4.
WK1 3/28-/4 _Cases 301k--Dead 18.1k Lethality 2.72%
WK2 4/5-/13 _Cases 555k--Dead 22.1K Lethality 3.9%
WK3 4/20-/21 Cases 774k -Dead 37.2K Lethality 4.8%
WK4 4/22-/29 Cases 1M --Dead 58.8K Lethality 5.9%
WK5 5/1-/8__ Cases 1.3M -Dead 75.7K Lethality 6.1%
WK6 5/9-16__Cases 1.4M --Dead 85.8K Lethality 6.1%
WK7 5/17-24_Cases 1.7M - Dead 97.6K Lethality 5.9%
WK8 5/28 Cases 1.7M - DEAD 101.2K - Same
Earl (02-27-2020)
Guno צְבִי (03-08-2020), Taichiliberal (02-27-2020)
when was the last lynching in America?
did we really need this law?
Seems kinda symbolic, but if it makes you feel better then good on ya
Earl (02-27-2020), Stretch (02-27-2020), Truth Detector (02-27-2020)
Bet TRE45ON will veto it -- assuming the Turtle lets it get to the Senate.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Earl (02-27-2020)
Guno צְבִי (03-08-2020), Taichiliberal (02-27-2020)
Truth Detector (02-27-2020)
Actually lynching is already (rightfully) illegal under federal law. Amash was one of four who voted against it and argued this type of legislation ultimately has big unintended consequences in how crime is handled at the state and federal level. Hard to vote against good sounding legislation but devil is always in the details about the effect it has.
anatta (03-08-2020), Grokmaster (02-27-2020)
So it only took till 2018?
I'm not being glib, I wonder if the 2018 was the FIRST FED law saying "you can't do that anymore".
PS Frankly, detail wise, EMMETT wasn't lynched was he? Didn't they kill the kid and then weight his body with a turbine propeller and throw him in a river? (Maybe they strung him up before) His mother had an open casket so the world would see what they did to her kid...
WK1 3/28-/4 _Cases 301k--Dead 18.1k Lethality 2.72%
WK2 4/5-/13 _Cases 555k--Dead 22.1K Lethality 3.9%
WK3 4/20-/21 Cases 774k -Dead 37.2K Lethality 4.8%
WK4 4/22-/29 Cases 1M --Dead 58.8K Lethality 5.9%
WK5 5/1-/8__ Cases 1.3M -Dead 75.7K Lethality 6.1%
WK6 5/9-16__Cases 1.4M --Dead 85.8K Lethality 6.1%
WK7 5/17-24_Cases 1.7M - Dead 97.6K Lethality 5.9%
WK8 5/28 Cases 1.7M - DEAD 101.2K - Same
IDIOT! CLASSIFIED as a lynching? 1981 (the year REAGAN was sworn in). Alabama (big surprise). At least one of 4 killers was KKK. The ONLY KKK MEMBER to have been INDICTED in the20TH CENTURY for lynching. Anyone remember when LYNCHING became 'public sport'?
If you were lucky, your family member sent you a postcard once the NEGRO was strung up in the tree.
Last edited by Centerleftfl; 02-27-2020 at 09:53 AM.
WK1 3/28-/4 _Cases 301k--Dead 18.1k Lethality 2.72%
WK2 4/5-/13 _Cases 555k--Dead 22.1K Lethality 3.9%
WK3 4/20-/21 Cases 774k -Dead 37.2K Lethality 4.8%
WK4 4/22-/29 Cases 1M --Dead 58.8K Lethality 5.9%
WK5 5/1-/8__ Cases 1.3M -Dead 75.7K Lethality 6.1%
WK6 5/9-16__Cases 1.4M --Dead 85.8K Lethality 6.1%
WK7 5/17-24_Cases 1.7M - Dead 97.6K Lethality 5.9%
WK8 5/28 Cases 1.7M - DEAD 101.2K - Same
Truth Detector (02-27-2020)
Truth Detector (02-27-2020)
You bet they were. DIXIECRATS. And we lost them in the 50's. The GOP owns them now!
Ironically, we just lost, dare I say, OUR last one just last week. 101. Stayed a Democrat but in unguarded moments he had the old language and the old attitudes. We made an 'exception' for ol Herbie. He was 81 when I first met him. Nice man but you couldn't beat the 'southern' out of him with a hammer!
WK1 3/28-/4 _Cases 301k--Dead 18.1k Lethality 2.72%
WK2 4/5-/13 _Cases 555k--Dead 22.1K Lethality 3.9%
WK3 4/20-/21 Cases 774k -Dead 37.2K Lethality 4.8%
WK4 4/22-/29 Cases 1M --Dead 58.8K Lethality 5.9%
WK5 5/1-/8__ Cases 1.3M -Dead 75.7K Lethality 6.1%
WK6 5/9-16__Cases 1.4M --Dead 85.8K Lethality 6.1%
WK7 5/17-24_Cases 1.7M - Dead 97.6K Lethality 5.9%
WK8 5/28 Cases 1.7M - DEAD 101.2K - Same
Guno צְבִי (03-08-2020)
Aren't you embarrassed to go back that far? It is an illustration that there really isn't a problem today. Now if you can post me something like this that happened this year, maybe I would be inclined to support it.
Hell there have been more FAKE racial attacks than actual racial attacks against negroes
Jussie Smollett anyone?
Truth Detector (02-27-2020)
looks like our race hustling friend can't find anything more current
Truth Detector (02-27-2020)
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Truth Detector (02-27-2020)
Flash (02-27-2020), Truth Detector (02-27-2020)
The 1980's. Oddly enough, all took place in New York City.
The last one in any Southern State was 1981 in Alabama. One of those convicted was executed, two served life terms, and a fourth died before his trial was completed.
I thought we already had laws against murdering people?
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