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Home Front: Politix
Black lawmakers condemn Trump's 'lynching' remarks
2019-10-23
[The Hill] Black lawmakers on Capitol Hill slammed President Trump for an explosive tweet Tuesday that compared Democrats’ impeachment investigation to a "lynching," conjuring a dark chapter in the nation’s history targeting African Americans.

While Democrats widely condemned Trump’s language, it was personal and hurtful for members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).
Who historically suffered at the hands of Democrats
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) called Trump a "racist" who is "unfit to serve," while Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), a civil rights activist who founded a chapter of the Black Panthers in the 1960s, called on Trump to delete the offensive tweet.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Rush tweeted. "Do you know how many people who look like me have been lynched, since the inception of this country, by people who look like you. Delete this tweet."

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), a former CBC chairman and the No. 3 Democrat in leadership, said he wants the full House to vote on a resolution condemning Trump’s lynching comments.

Related: RedState - Apparently Every Democrat In Existence Used The Term “Lynching” To Defend The Clintons
Posted by:Besoeker

#18  Didnt he even notice that er copy paste stupidity?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-10-23 18:03  

#17  The speech/bio Biden plagiarized was also about "his" Welsh mining grandfather, BP, IIRC
Posted by: Frank G   2019-10-23 15:29  

#16  Neil Kinnock was the Welsh Windbag, not a miner.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-10-23 14:51  

#15  Considering the level of dudgeon, it's hard to believe the dems ever had an Attorney General named Lynch...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-10-23 14:46  

#14  Such remarks were O.K. by Dems back in 1998 when Slick Willie was being impeached for real crimes?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-10-23 10:47  

#13  F--- off, grifters
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-23 10:47  

#12  #7 prejudice in his abuse of Welsh miners.

Ah, so Biden has another connection as a lynching victim! Oh, wait, that was Neil Kinnock, my bad
Posted by: Frank G   2019-10-23 10:44  

#11  
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-10-23 10:32  

#10  Hypocrisy matters to conservatives, but it doesn't matter to the left who simply judge if things make them feel good or bad. in this case the word lynching makes them feel bad and attacking Trump makes them feel good.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-10-23 10:06  

#9  Joe Biden apologizes when footage of him blasting 1998 Clinton impeachment as a 'partisan lynching' is unearthed – after he attacked Donald Trump for calling this year's saga a 'lynching'
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-10-23 08:40  

#8  Hang 'Em High
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-10-23 08:31  

#7  prejudice in his abuse of Welsh miners.

Well, sure. They were the Deplorables of their day.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-10-23 08:25  

#6  Interesting P2K. Never really followed up on the term's origin.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-10-23 08:15  

#5  Charles Lynch was a Virginia Quaker,[7]:23ff planter, and American Revolutionary who headed a county court in Virginia which imprisoned Loyalist supporters of the British for up to one year during the war. Although he lacked proper jurisdiction for detaining these persons, he claimed this right by arguing wartime necessity. Subsequently, he prevailed upon his friends in the Congress of the Confederation to pass a law that exonerated him and his associates from wrongdoing. He was concerned that he might face legal action from one or more of those he had imprisoned, notwithstanding the American Colonies had won the war. This action by the Congress provoked controversy, and it was in connection with this that the term "Lynch law", meaning the assumption of extrajudicial authority, came into common parlance in the United States. Lynch was not accused of racist bias. He acquitted blacks accused of murder on three separate occasions.[8][9] He was accused, however, of ethnic prejudice in his abuse of Welsh miners. - wiki
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-10-23 07:48  

#4  Simple projection. A parade of squirrels on a hot summer night in South Chicago. All of which will soon be prohibited from mention.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-10-23 04:56  

#3  If only white people can be racist, does it follow that only black people can be lynched?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-23 04:03  

#2  Such an African-American day for social cohesion.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-10-23 03:39  

#1  a dark chapter in the nation’s history targeting African Americans

Just "African Americans"? Not being sarcastic, really curious.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-23 02:33  

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