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
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Shouldn’t what kind of rope they were lynched with?
Maybe have five or ten anti-lynching laws depending on what kind of rope they used.
So desperate for someone to care about them in 2020 that it’s sad.
B A I T I N G
it's essentially all they've got
This woman’s mother couldn’t spell “Camilla” for the birth certificate? What is it with these “phonetic” spellings, anyway.
What an absolutely imbecilic waste of time and effort.
How many bonafide “lynching’s” are there in this country in a year??? Are there not laws that already address the act of murder in the 1st degree and then tack on the aggravated stipulation of an automatic hate crime.
Nothing more than virtue posturing to gain press coverage.
A slight edit that would make this poorly contrived legislation possibly relevant.
How about the innocent victims of those lynched?
Absolutely no effort has been made to remember them.
Last official lynching in the United States was over half a century ago
“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.”
Isn’t there anyone in public life with the stones to call this lying chunk of dog crap a lying chunk of dog crap?
Murder isn't already a crime?
Answered my own question.....The last verifiable lynching in the US was perpetrated in 1981. The man responsible was put to death (electrocuted) in 1997. And he wasn’t technically “lynched” as he was beaten and killed THEN hung from a tree.
So it’s been 38 years since the last “lynching” in this country yet we need a specific law enacted 38 years later to criminalize something that has rarely happened in the last hundred years and only once in the last 50.
BRILLIANT!
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell
I guess that would be military style assault rope.
Lynching was LEGAL? Who knew?
What Kamala Harris did was to amend the language of the bill to extend the protected classes already listed to include GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, the first time that transgenders are listed in federal law as a protected class. Below is the actual wording from the law.
(1) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN.
—If 2 or more persons willfully cause bodily injury to any other person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person—
(2) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, OR DISABILITY.—
“(A) IN GENERAL.—If 2 or more persons, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B), willfully cause bodily injury to any other person because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person—
What? Lynching is legal?
They’re saying it’s ok these days to hang someone but they want to, in the future, make it illegal?
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