posted on Mar, 29 2022 @ 05:36 PM
Well folks, cancel the lynching you had planned.
Biden signed legislation making lynching a federal hate crime.
Not that murdering someone without a trial isn’t already illegal.
The quote below shows where the name of the bill comes from.
“The bill was named after Till, a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and shot in the head in 1955 after he allegedly
whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi store.“
“ Tuskegee University, which tracks the history of lynchings, estimates more than 4,700 people were lynched from 1882 to 1968, the majority of them
Black Americans. Lynchings were particularly common in the racially segregated South. Till was one of them. Members of Till's family stood alongside
Mr. Biden on Tuesday. ”
1968… I wonder why they stopped counting over 50 years ago?
This seems to be a day late and a dollar short.
www.cbsnews.com...
edit on 29-3-2022 by Bluntone22 because: (no reason given)
edit on 29-3-2022 by Bluntone22 because: (no reason given)