Trump: Mississippi senator’s ‘hanging’ remark was ‘in jest’

apnews.com ^ | 11/20/18 | Emily Wagster Pettus

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President Donald Trump is defending a Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi who praised one of her own supporters by saying she would attend a “public hanging” if the supporter invited her — a remark that has stirred strong emotions in a state with a history of racially motivated lynchings.

Trump said at the White House on Tuesday that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith is “a tremendous woman” who loves the people of Mississippi and the U.S.

A video published Nov. 11 shows Hyde-Smith praising a supporter in Tupelo by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” She said in a statement that the expression was an “exaggerated expression of regard” and said it is “ridiculous” to read any negative connotation into it, but she has refused to answer questions about it.

Walmart asked Hyde-Smith to return a $2,000 campaign contribution because of the hanging remark.

“It was just sort of said in jest,” Trump said, defending Hyde-Smith. “She’s a tremendous woman and it’s a shame that she has to go through this.”

Hyde-Smith’s campaign did not respond to questions from The Associated Press about whether it would refund Walmart’s contribution. Campaign spokeswoman Melissa Scallan said the senator was focusing on debate preparation.

(snip) -- Bishop Ronnie Crudup, senior pastor of predominantly black New Horizon Church International in Jackson, said Hyde-Smith’s hanging remark was “highly offensive.”

“That statement has historical context to it, and it shows that she doesn’t really know black people,” said Crudup, who is supporting Espy. “This is something that has everybody in an uproar because, in 2018, you want to think that we’re beyond this. And probably for most of my folks, too, what makes it worse is not to apologize about it.”

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"Was Oprah’s “lynching” comment in jest?"

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Thomas Sowell's “lynching” comment was not in jest.

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Rush is talking about the real history of Thanksgiving right now. It's always great.

He mentioned that 102 people were on the Mayflower. Just wondering ...... to your knowledge are you related at all?

[MayflowerMadam]

Ancestor is Elder John Brewster.

[MayflowerMadam]

Rush’s Thanksgiving show is always the best. It makes me cry sometimes. Amazing that such an amazing country started with such a pitiful little ragtag bunch.

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...... of Nottinghamshire.

Fantastic.

[wardaddy]

She’s half as stupid as Yankee posters opining on Mississippi

[wardaddy]

Bullshit

And unlike you I was there

The only klan activity I ever saw in Mississippi in the 1970s was at Hardy Jr High in Jackson in early January 1970 when forced busing had just taken effect and a few klan marched out front on Ellis ave and the teachers closed all the blinds

Later in 1976 the Indiana klan came down and marched in Tupelo over a labor disputes at some factory there

A man who worked for my dad as project manager of our pipeline job there turned out to be klan and carried a Thompson class III and attacked an Ole Miss student journalist on camera with his hood off....with an axe handle

The Tupelo paper the Daily Journal

Front page....my dad fired him on the spot

He was from West Virginia....I used to smoke weed and party with him....a Vietnam vet....nobody had any idea

At Oxford and at State late 70s I never saw any klan activity

I was in Oxford 1976-81 and frequented State during the fuzzy buffer period when southern hippies ran State student govt...I knew them

I really dislike when non Mississippians act like the klan was common and had support in the state

The only time the klan was respected in Mississippi was during reconstruction when it could be argued it had a purpose....thst was Wheelers klan to resist occupation

I am 7th generation Mississippian descended from Raspberry Byrd and Pappy Sullivan who founded Sullivan’s Hollow and possibly from Dunbar of Natchez elite

I have personally know. 3 klan members in my whole life and one was from West Virginia as already mentioned and one in Beaumont Texas with whose estranged wife he’d abused I had an affair and one a distant relative via marriage who had allegedly lynched a black rapist in Shubuta Mississippi in the 1920s

I’m sixty and have known 100s of southerners

It ain’t Hollywood and the klan has never been respected by common folk and especially rich folks

And never in big numbers like the Midwest klan of the Wilson era

Why perpetuate canards?

Woman wears a museum forager cap and the south haters rush out to this forum

These threads really show freeperdom in its true nature...not very pretty

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"She’s half as stupid as Yankee posters opining on Mississippi"

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RIGHT

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[Theodore R.]

I hate to see another seat lost on Nov. 27, but it is only for a two-year term.

[rktman]

You saw what you saw and I saw what I saw so I don't know what to tell ya. I even knew where their gas fired cross was located. It was considerably further south from where you are talking about. My first wife was from Philadelphia MS and we know what happened there. Different lives, different experiences. Like I said, where we were, anyone north of Hwy 90 was a Yankee. In any case, have a awesome 🦃 day.

[wardaddy]

Mickey was a southerner

For the record

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Mickey was a southerner

For the record

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He was from Oklahoma ...... and, HE WAS A YANKEE.

You have the sense of humor of a piranha with a bad belly ache.

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[wardaddy]

He played for the Yankees

Oklahoma is southern except the extreme west maybe

Just ask them

[usconservative]

this woman an idiot?

Ya think?!

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"He played for the Yankees"

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LOL. That was innocently intended as humor.

You don't have much sense of humor, do you.

*****

I perused your extensive profile page. Very thorough.

There I noted that you have a nearly unlimited distaste, bordering on a neurosis against FReepers and others who you suspect don't appreciate people from the "South" as much as you think they should. You even have a ridiculous list of supposed "offenders".

You do seem to have a huge chip on a shoulder of that 6'4" frame about being from the south.

You spend an unbalanced amount of time here, post after post, criticizing numerous FReepers for their lack of a "proper love and understanding" for the "South".

As I said I looked at your entire profile page. Very impressive .......... a very lovely family, GREAT, great poochies (and one cat) ........ yet strangely, in all those pictures, you never smile. I wonder why. Maybe you're smiling inside.

In my 72 years I have learned that complete self awareness is sometimes elusive ....... even after your 60 years.

Good luck.........

[wardaddy]

younfall so readily into that northern trap of thinking you know best for everyone else meanwhile you’re totally unaware of your own hubris

I’ve been here 18 years

For the record I lived in Manhattan 8 years and have business interests in niorthern Michigan

You’ve posted what three years and give little information. About yourself

Let me give you a free Republic history

This forum use to be powered by amnesty ...yes hard to believe isn’t it...google it and look it up

Here I’ll help

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053265/posts

And there has always been a cadre here who work in unison pushing a Politically correct history of south equals slavery and must be demonized and some of us push back

Over the years many of them were zotted for offenses often being soft of homosexual agenda and a few left as Rudy Giuliani fans during that purge in 2007 and many left as nevertrumpers...no surprise

Some are simply disrupters

Other are creatures I can’t quite grasp....but I realize national review is infected with them and Dinesh is part of that

They say they oppose tearing down statues but they are gleeful when it happens

Over the years some have been outed as provocateurs here to shame the forum for our foes

I have read so much crap here from them for 18 years that if you’re really a newbie you wouldn’t believe it

Vile stuff....they go personal immediately....I’ve noticed on occasion personal admissions from them and it’s about what you’d expect

So I oppose them....you siimply are ignorant of the context but you can figure it out if you’re that curious

Pennsylvania is not under the cultural attack we’ve been for a couple of generations now.....and when it comes from your own side...ostensibly..it’s worse

Why it’s tolerated here I’ve never understood

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"younfall"

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You lost me with that bizarre English.

Sleep it off.

[wardaddy]

I see where you’re at it

My original assumption was accurate

Snotty self righteous Yankee ....check

And you’re no 2015 either

You write like Poobah

He was an insufferable prick too used to post here

He left with his feelings hurt said we were all racists

Is that you?

You posted your little thread here just to preen...so typical

Given Mississippi whites vote 88-92% GOP as opposed to where you live Pennsylvania where whites vote was 56%

Maybe you should pay to your own state....just a thought

[wardaddy]

Your freepmail was appreciated

I did not see it yet when I wrote my reply

I apologize

If you are a newbie there is a lot to know about the history of the forum

And a lot of it is surprising

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Hey good man................ I just wanted to tell you (in all sincerity) when Neil Young wrote that crap: "Southern Man" ............ that was so ignorant and disgusting!

Thank God Lynard Skynard spoke up with "Sweet Home Alabama" to bury Young's ignorant hate.