Posted on 03/30/2019 2:30:03 PM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
Today (2/14/19) U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) asked for unanimous consent on the Senate floor to pass the bipartisan Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, legislation that would criminalize lynching for the first time in American history. The motion was passed, marking a historic step towards the first federal anti-lynching law...
On 12/21/18, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act passed the Senate by unanimous consent, marking the first time in American history that federal anti-lynching legislation had been passed by the Senate.
“Lynchings were acts of violence—they were horrendous acts of violence, and they were motivated by racism,” said Harris. “With this bill, we finally have a chance to speak the truth about our past and make clear that these hateful acts should never happen again. We can finally offer some long overdue justice and recognition to the victims of lynching and their families.”
“Lynching is not a relic of a painful past—it is a present and pernicious evil that we still have yet to confront,” said Booker. “Today’s Senate passage of the Justice For Victims of Lynching Act is a historic step towards acknowledging a long and painful history and codifying into law our commitment to confronting bias-motivated acts of terror in all of its forms. . .
“Today the Senate sent a strong signal that this nation will not stand for the hate and violence spread by those with evil in their hearts,” said Scott. . .
According to data from the Equal Justice Initiative, lynching was used as an instrument of terror and intimidation 4,084 times during the late 19th and 20th centuries. From 1882 to 1986, Congress failed to pass anti-lynching legislation 200 times. The [legislation] is supported by the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Equal Justice Initiative
(Excerpt) Read more at harris.senate.gov ...
I still say some folk name their kids after whatever happens to be in their spoonful of alphabet soup.
Thanks for that info. I often ignore the self-serving leftist blather and then miss something. Pathetic.
Then what is the explanation for "Jussie"?
A black woman boss I once had (I had three, including two at one time) named her son "Isreal" because she couldn't spell "Israel."
Yes, until this historic and heroic legislation by these exemplars of greatness today.
Obama outlawed slavery and freed all the African Americans on his first Inauguration Day, too. That's heading for the new history books children will read online soon./s
I hope someone on our side has read the fine print to determine what’s actually in the law. Are permits/license required to own/purchase rope now? How many feet of one length of rope are we now able to have in our possession? More than ten I hope. Are background checks now required? What’s the proper way to dispose of rope to prevent it from falling into the hands of lynchers? Shouldn’t an “R” be added to ATF (i.e. ATFR). Like making jokes about security at the airport, will we be penalized for making jokes about lynching someone? Sure would be nice to know what’s in this bill, so important and revelalent to the times we’re living in. I’m so thankful our representatives in their infinite wisdom, put other bills aside and rushed this vital and historic legislation through in such a timely manner!
I’m pretty sure lynching was already illegal. Kinda like how murder is already illegal.
Isn’t it interesting how Harris and bookers pushes an anti lynching bill and her good friend Smollett winds up claiming someone tried to lynch him. Then he leaves the noose around his neck for almost an house
Yes, you are correct. This is the way the Marxists operate. They get something passed easily because it’s a no-brainer to be against something horrendous and illegal, even if this specialized crime surely didn’t need to be an extra on the books because it’s obvious. The plan is is to refer to that new law in the near future as a special boutique basis for their planned political actions. When they paste “gender and race” onto the crime, they further the goal of dividing the country on these bases.
Isn’t it interesting how Harris and bookers pushes an anti lynching bill and her good friend Smollett winds up claiming someone tried to lynch him. Then he leaves the noose around his neck for almost an house
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Could change the name to the clinton, clapper, brennan, soetoro protection act??
....names ...whatever happens to be in their alphabet soup.”
I know of a case in which an “inner city” mother, having just given birth in a big city hospital ward, heard the medical staff discussing “the meconium,” and, inspired by the bold, fresh, multisyllabic sound, decided on the spot to name the boy “Meconium.”
They can test out the law on Loretta Lynch.
What has it been 60+ years since lynchings occurred!!! GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!!!
Is it still ok to hang someone in effigy?
“So desperate for someone to care about them in 2020 that it’s sad.”
This is about virtue signalling first and foremost. They need to show how much they love blacks. Secondly it’s to further encase us in a web of legislation. This is aimed at Whites.
Exactly. It’s a routine Marxist strategy to get a legislative body to pass something that’s really a subset of something already on the books, and then turn around and point to that new statute as a basis for throwing the book at someone on the basis on that “new” statute. In this case, they did today’s dance routine of making it a special crime if the victim can be described as non-white or non-heterosexual.
Pandering legislation
What about pretend lynchings? It’s ironic that the very Senator who got Jussie Smollett off the hook for faking a lynching is now pushing anti-lynching legislation. Oh, and this is probably a trap for Trump.
No kidding...
Ug...
was there a lynching of a black man in the last 10 years 20 years?
Does that include the verbal lynching they both gave Kavenaugh?
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