Black Democratic Senate candidate in Kentucky wears noose in campaign video

CBS News ^ | 2 June 2022 | ADAM BREWSTER

[Apparatchik]

Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Charles Booker released a campaign video Wednesday which features him wearing a noose, in an attempt to highlight Senator Rand Paul's opposition to a 2020 bill that would have made lynching a federal hate crime.

The video, which starts with a graphic warning, opens with a shot of a noose hanging from a tree.

"The pain of our past persists to this day," Booker, who is Black, says in the opening lines. "In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool for terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom."

[Apparatchik]

Vote for me or the n*****r gets it.

[TigersEye]

He hung himself with that campaign tactic.

[BrexitBen]

He could be Nascars new spokesmen.

[CopperTop]

".."In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool for terror.."

Yeah, IIRC it was mostly used by the dimOcrats you choose to associate with.

Choke on it..

[backwoods-engineer]

Excellent. The Demonrats are already self-noosing. That’ll make it easier after the new Nuremberg Trials.

[changeitback440]

someone should kick the chair out from under him

[DesertRhino]

Drama queen...

[Delta 21]

[sumuam]

So sick of these people.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Going against Rand-future POTUS. He’ll do anything.

[Vigilanteman]

Less than 2,000 lynched in the Jim Crow Era by Democrats versus over 70,000 hanged during the 38 year reign of Henry VIII.

[caww]

When a political candidate shows his utter stupidity...in a political ad.

[Irenic]

Lynching is already illegal, does it need to be double illegal?

Lynching are pretty dang rare nowadays, has there been a sudden outbreak of them? If so I haven’t seen news of it.

Demented, sick manipulation by democrats.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"The pain of our past persists to this day"

BS. Not buying it anymore. There is not a single law in this country that discriminates against black people. Only white people.

[Fai Mao]

Kentucky is Midwest not the South

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Please tell me his parents (or, as demonrats might say, 'parental units') were NOT first cousins.

[OHPatriot]

Quick,take up the slack in the rope.

[Tupelo]

Interesting thing, the only people with nooses are black. And hoods? The only ones, I know of are the hoods where the black folks live. I ain't going into robes.

[Dalberg-Acton]

He said three of his uncles were lynched. All of his uncles were born around 1960 and later. He’s a liar.

[dragnet2]

Booker is hoping he can ride the racism bandwagon to victory...

A 3rd rate huckster.