Hi Debra: Wal-Mart withdraws support from GOP Senator over lynching joke

I agree with you. The public hanging comment has been twisted for political purposes the same way Kap's kneeling is willfully misinterpreted. This is the stupid game we play. The expression she used is meant to express that she likes a person so much she would accept any invitation from him, even to a spectacle that is no fun to watch like a public hanging. It is a very colorful expression and, I think, bears some cultural legacy marks that says something about the place she's from though not in a particularly bad way. That the sensitivity of talking about hanging in any context didn't occur to her before she opened her mouth says something about her. And between this and all the other segregation-themed stuff people have dug up from her past, I think you get a pretty good picture of who she is and where she's coming from and at which constituents her antennae are pointed. So yeah, its all stupid. The criticism is manufactured like a lot of political criticism is. But I still sure as hell wouldn't vote for her.

 

LOL i don't know she looks a little suspect to me.

 

hmm and invite from a cattle rancher in Mississippi?

you know the state where there's a "hanging bridge"

she knows what she was saying and doing

 

unfortunately, this is their strategy to win elections. It's been like this for quite some time now

 

A public hanging is a lynching. In any case, a woman who sends her daughter to a racially segregated school is probably not a big fan of black people. People like you like to excuse someone who embraces the confederacy and keeps their kids away from black people as being good ole fashioned americans, but they are just racists.

You rightists just like to have your white nationalist agenda and eat it too.

 

I don't want to get into the rest of your argument, but not all public hangings are lynchings. A lynching is an extra-judicial execution by a group of people. Our history in the US and back in Europe has plenty of public hangings of criminals duly convicted by courts and executed by official executioners. Maybe justice was not always served with a proper court-ordered hanging, but equating those executions with the terrorism inflicted upon blacks during Jim Crow muddies just how terrible and unjust the latter were. Talking about a public hanging was evocative, but nothing compared to what it'd mean if she said she'd accept an invitation to a lynching.

 

Point taken

 

When i first heard it, i just thought it was an oldish way to imply loyalty, "i'd even attend/do <insert bad thing here> for/with you", it's something i've heard a lot more frequently in other english speaking nations though, and i've never heard a politician say it, as it's not particularly expedient and too easy to mind read motivations into the drama.