List of Senators who refused to sign the anti-lynching resolution.

Those are the ones who became Republicans after LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act.

 

Like Robert Byrd? You know it's funny how that NYT babe rips George Allen for having a Confederate flag while conveniently ignoring ol' Sheets Byrd.



And here's a bit of trivia:
"The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes."
Via http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_civilrights64text.htm

 

so since you have zero to say to defend the Senators that didn't sign, you have to revert to partisan attacks? How pitiful.

 

It was stupid politics for the Reps not to aplogize, but they have nothing to apologize for. And quite frankly this whole apology stuff is silly, but that's the Oprahzation of our culture I guess.

 

An apology is the least they could do. You have shrub visiting Africa years ago, saying how terrible the slave trade was and practically apologizing for it and now these wimps won't sign an apology because it could upset their constituency?!!! How f***ing hard is it to apologize on behalf of your country for something that was wrong . The fact that they will not sign, just goes to prove that racism will always exist in one form or another.
I can hear these cowards now " I wasn't there" "I didn't do it". And they are probably right about that. But it doesn't take away from the fact that they represent states were this kind of murder was considered "justice" and acceptable.
Compassionate Coservatism at it's hypocritical best.

 

This whole thing bears some similarity of China and Japan's dispute over apologies for wartime atrocity.

 

Oh my God. What a waste of time.

Making up for past mistakes? OK ... here's a question. How has the life of anyone lynched in the past changed because of this measure? Now they know that the senators of today are sorry that the senators of yesterday didn't pass legislation...yippee.

I hate these symbolic gestures. They do absolutely nothing except waste time like DaDakota said.

 

OK ... here's a question. How has the life of anyone lynched in the past changed because of this measure? Now they know that the senators of today are sorry that the senators of yesterday didn't pass legislation...yippee.


http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/13/lynching.apology.ap/index.html

James Cameron lived to recount his own brush with mob justice. In 1930 he and two others were taken from an Indiana jail to face a lynch mob. The mob hanged the two young men accused of murder and rape but spared Cameron when someone in the crowd contended that the 16-year-old was not involved.

"I was saved by a miracle," said Cameron, now 91. People were "hollering for my blood," he recalled, "when a voice said, 'Take this boy back."'

To the victims of lynching -- 4,743 people killed between 1882 and 1968, three out of four of them black -- the Senate issued an apology Monday night for not standing against the violence.

"The apology, while late, is very necessary," said Doria Dee Johnson, an expert on the subject of lynching and the great-great-granddaughter of a victim. "People suffered. When the United States government could have done something about it, it did not."

Johnson traveled from Evanston, Illinois, to witness, along with more than 100 other relatives of Anthony P. Crawford, the voice-vote passage of the Senate resolution. Crawford was lynched in 1916 in Abbeville, South Carolina.


Apparently to some people, it did matter.

 

pppfffft! All these "almost" lynchees, I bet they made it up so they can get more welfare. They prolly hate America because we are FREE, bucha Al-Queda lovers...How DARE they expect atonement for thousands of race inspired murders? If it wasn't for Oprah we could root out this bad element--sissy liberal muck rakers.

 

if an apology is a way to move forward, then you do it. admitting our shortcomings and facing up to them is one of the things that others around the world actually admire about the US. let's not ruin that one, too. if there's ill feelings that can be resolved or managed with the help of an apology...then do it. and stop worrying whether or not it's "practical." most of our lives aren't practical, because we're emotional beings.

 

There are a lot of people alive who were around to see lynchings. It isn't ancient history.

 

The protector of the Right to Filibuster was silent when the filibuster's darkest days were acknowledged. The Grand Kleagle of the Raleigh Kounty Kavern was ignored when his organization's favorite tool of terrorism was denounced, and you think i'm embarrassed?

 

Considering that he's the exception that proves the rule that racism and the recruitment thereof was a huge part of the southern strategy and its progeny that have led to the resurgence of the party, yes, you should be embarrassed if that is the type of thing you profess to detest - now don't you have an anti-gay marriage rally to go to? or an intelligent design seminar?

 

I have no idea how you find the two related.

 

I haven't had a chance to look at the resolution but is it an actual law making lynching a Federal crime or is it a sense of the Senate resolution like the ones recognizing the winner of the World Series?

 

lynchings...

 

it's a nonsense of the senate resolution

 

You obviously have no idea what the word means.

 

wonder if clarence thomas did when he used the word during his hearings...

 

Is a lynching still a lynching when it has been earned?

Discuss....