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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row."
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces a black Democratic challenger in a Nov. 27 runoff, said Sunday that her Nov. 2 remark was "exaggerated expression of regard" for someone who invited her to speak and "any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous."
Mississippi has a history of racially motivated lynchings of black people. The NAACP website says that between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 lynchings in the United States, and nearly 73 percent of the victims were black. It says Mississippi had 581 during that time, the highest number of any state.
odd statement but Public hangings and lynching are not the same thing...
Public Hangings were used as capital punishment as late as the 1930s. The most infamous public hangings occurred in 1865 when the Co Conspirators of President Lincolns assassination were hung...
Still an odd statement but obviously not as inflammatory as using lynching vs public hanging.
The disturbing part for me is she implies this is a common saying in MS. If true, that's odd and off-putting.
I grew up in Alabama and I never, ever heard that phrase as a common saying.
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Originally Posted by Robert_J
A Democrat is RINO clothing.
The Republican Senator is clearly NOT a Democrat. She's is yours; ya'll keep her because no Democrat wants her. Stop trying to pawn off your racist wannabes onto the Democratic party.
It is Ridiculous to make an outrage about this. It must have been a slow news day..
Why does everything have to be about racism?
I wonder if this hanging statement was made by a politician in Vermont which has no "history of lynchings" if it would have been spun to become a racist headline?
I wonder if a Democrat anywhere said this if it would have been talked about of ignored?
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