12/21/2018
It took 200 attempts for before Congress passed a law making Lynching a Federal Crime. Let's see if Trump signs it now. Lynching -with or without noose- is very much alive today. And candidates running for office shouldn't be allowed to make references in support of lynching. They should be stopped and charged accordingly.
"...On Nov. 26 (2018), the park’s oak trees also had nooses, two menacing talismans bringing Mississippi’s dark past to the forefront, a day before the state was poised to vote in a runoff election for a U.S. Senate seat....
We’re hanging nooses to remind people that times haven’t changed,” read one of the signs with the nooses...
Weeks later, however, no one has been arrested for the incident, let alone prosecuted.....
In a 2014 case involving public nooses, drunk fraternity men at the University of Mississippi disgraced themselves and a campus statue of James Meredith, the first African-American to enroll at Ole Miss, by putting a noose on it with the Georgia state flag, which then included the Confederacy’s stars and bars."
The nooses sparked headlines from the U.S. to Ireland to Japan, with American cable television news networks, in particular, suggesting they were the latest race-tinged outrage meant to affect black voters. Authorities vowed swift investigation to find the culprit.
