The lynching of Ab Young by a mob of 50 men at at Slayden, Mississippi in March 1935Some 65 years after the torture and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi and 120 years after it first considered the issue, Congress has finally made lynching a federal hate crime.
Welcoming the decision by Congress, Illinois Representative Bobby Rush said:"We sent a strong message that violence - and race-based violence in particular - has no place in American society."
120 years too late!
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It would have been better for America and most of the world if the white man had just stayed at home.
This raises not only eyebrows, but serious questions.
So, if it is now a hate crime, what was it before? A misdemeanour?
When was the last lynching in the US? 1981, which is shocking to me & most. Went out in the 1930’s.
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