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Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime

Yay, but how was lynching not a federal hate crime already? Forgive my ignorance, but how'd we let this go so long?
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spjennifer · 61-69, T
Wondering how long it will take the Southern States to take this to the SCOTUS now to have it blocked? 😖
Graylight · 51-55, F
@spjennifer I'm sure DeSantis is trying to figure out which angle to go with: The freedom to lynch because no one can erase Florida's rich history or extending the success of hijacking "Our body, our choice" for the Vaccine War and demanding that people have the right to be lynched if that's where the logical path leads.

😶
spjennifer · 61-69, T
@Graylight Am sure Texass, Mississippi and Alabama will have something to say about this too.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@spjennifer "Got-dang it, Bubba, now what the hail we gon' do when we's drunk on a Saturday naght?"
@LordShadowfire you could drag black man behind truck instead .

jasper, Texas, U.S. James Byrd Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an African-American man who was murdered by three white supremacists in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King dragged him for three miles (five kilometers) behind a pickup truck along an asphalt road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@markansas I'd like to drag those guys behind my van through a cactus patch.
@LordShadowfire some times i like to forget what i have seen or heard in my time . its mostly disturbing. and when i listen to the people here it brings back the bad memory's . some here do not know or care about others as human beings.
dakotaviper · 56-60, M
@markansas Oh, does that mean you actually care about Conservatives and Republicans then!

I think not since the majority of your statements on here prove otherwise.
Which means you don't care about human beings either.
@dakotaviper look at my profile and look at my posts . then get back to me.
@markansas Lawrence Brewer & John King have been executed for the crime, the first white men in our country to die for murdering a black man. Shawn Berry will be eligible for parole in 2038, when he’s 63.
BackyardShaman · 61-69, M
@spjennifer 1.5 months, SCOTUS will treat it as an emergency and non originalist ruling, and reverse it.
@spjennifer Based on what those did to the Voters’ Rights Act, I can guess what they will do: declare the bill irrelevant because no one can "prove" they were lynched. 😳
spjennifer · 61-69, T
@bijouxbroussard You may well be right, I guess it's easier to get away with things in the South when you're wearing a white sheet... 😖