Posted on 03/05/2022 10:40:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In one of his last major acts in Congress, retiring U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Illinois, has likely helped correct a century-old wrong.
Rush is the chief sponsor of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which passed the U.S. House 422-3 last week and now awaits Senate approval.
If the bill becomes law, any hate crime — or conspiracy to commit one — that results in a victim being seriously injured or killed could be also federally prosecuted as a lynching.
Conviction under the act carries a maximum of 30 years in prison.
We can certainly see the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act being used against the George Zimmermans of the world, or those like the three Georgia white men sentenced recently in the 2020 of killing a Black man, Ahmaud Arbery. As it should.
But what about police departments, jails and prisons with longstanding patterns of seriously injuring or killing Black, Brown or Indigenous citizens?
If the law is designed to correct history, then it must recognize that institutions have played just as large a role in lynching as have random mobs of angry whites.
We look forward to President Joe Biden’s signing it into law.
But the real test of the law will be prosecutors’ willingness to use it.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Anyway, I disagree with the this:
But the real test of the law will be prosecutors’ willingness to use it.
Because the real test of the law will be the willingness to use the law against non-whites who commit those crimes.
Bullshit piece of crap law. Just what we don’t need.
Will the whites, Asians and Hispanics who are being murdered by blacks on a daily basis be considered victims of a lynching?
Stupid...Hate is not a crime...It is a thought. The ACT is a crime. Nuff said.......
Great! They are going to go after Asian and White hate crimes committed by black criminals.
It’s a stretch to call Till’s death a “lynching” in the usual sense, but even if it was, lynching has virtually disappeared from the American scene. There have been none recorded since the 1960s. And if I’m not mistaken, murder is a crime in every state.
These morons are hopelessly stuck in the past.
Do High Tech lynchings count?
So what’s the hang up?
The Emmett Till case got more national publicity than all of the 300 (or more) black-on-black crimes committed in Chicago every year. And this op-ed comes from Chicago!
Why, nobody gets lynched anymore. You don’t need a bill to know a criminal act. But the act has to happen. You can’t go around looking for garage pulls and rope swings in trees so that a person can scream “help a noose”.
Maybe Juicy Smollet could get this passed with Kamala’s help.
What about the high-tech lynching of black conservatives?
There have been four hundred and seventy two lynchings of blacks in the last year.
Oh wait—I made that up.
Can I get a mass media job now?
When blacks murder people in Chicago it is a “love crime”.
They have to go back to 1955 to find an example of a race-based lynching? Will they make this an extra-super-special hate crime?
Yes; we also need more laws against Bank Robbery too!
What is WRONG with these apple-heads?!?
“Can I get a mass media job now?“
By golly - with your gift, you could be running CNN!!
Wait...lynching isn’t already illegal? Who knew?
So the main purpose will be to take a second crack at prosecuting people who are found not guilty but politically are guilty. Pass.
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