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

[PostmodernProphet]

you mean killing people is finally illegal?......

 

[Lionfish]

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

Does that mean Jeffrey Epstein would still be alive?

 

[Jack]

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?

That's a good question.
Thomas Chatterton Williams in his new book 'Self-Prortait in Black and White' tries to answer that. He feels 'Black', even though mixed-race. He married a 'White woman from the West' and has 2 daughters that look 'White', ... blond curly hair and blue eyes.
How does he tell them the 'Black Experience'?

The Author mentions 'Blanqueamiento' as practiced in Brazil. "A drop of White blood makes you NOT Black".