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Senate Issues Apology for Failing to Enact Lynching Law | 38 comments (38 topical)
Re: Senate Issues Apology for Failing to Enact Lyn (none / 0) (#3)
by wg on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:00:01 PM EST
the better question is why now? 200 previous anti-lynching bills rejected and the 201st is fine with the Senate all of the sudden? If they thought this would help our image abroad they are mistaken. The incomprehensible belatedness of it will sink us further in foreign eyes. Waiting for the next administration (fresh start and hopefully more responsible) would make politically more sense imho. Remember the original Civil Rights Act of 1964? How proud it made you? But you probably weren't aware how shellshocked most Europeans were at that time that the Act was needed in the first place? In 1964? Many, many decades after such basic rights were recognized in most of the western world? In a country like the USA? And now, almost half a century later, we recognize lynching is not nice? Man! What's next? Indians?

Senate Issues Apology for Failing to Enact Lynching Law | 38 comments (38 topical)

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