real title, The senator, whose runoff opponent is black, jokes about 'public hanging'
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row."
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces a black Democratic challenger in a Nov. 27 runoff, said Sunday that her Nov. 2 remark was "exaggerated expression of regard" for someone who invited her to speak and "any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous."
Mississippi has a history of racially motivated lynchings of black people. The NAACP website says that between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 lynchings in the United States, and nearly 73 percent of the victims were black. It says Mississippi had 581 during that time, the highest number of any state.
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How is this misunderstood?
Context.
Rich Lowery:
"When she said she would show up at the front row of a public hanging if her friend and supporter Colin Hutchinson invited her, she was using an expression to say how much regard she had for Hutchinson, not that she liked public hangings. Otherwise, the line doesn’t work — it’s only a compliment of Hutchinson if she’s willing to do, on his invitation, something she doesn’t want to do. This has been obvious all along, but it’s even more obvious with the full version of the video clip, where she also offers to fight a circle saw for Hutchinson — and, again, not because she relishes the prospect of fighting circle saws."
The only way her statement can be interpreted is that she equates "attending public hangings" with "fighting circle saws." It's like saying "I'd walk through hell and back" for someone is not an endorsement of hell or a wish to walk through hell.
Also, public hangings are not the same as lynchings....
The last public hanging was in 1936,
Cindy Howe-Smith wasn't born until 1959.
The last public hanging was in 1936,
So what?
Again, there is no possible construction of the English language that can twist her statement into one of support for public hangings.
Simply mentioning public hangings in a negative context is not racist. Or, not at least in rational world.
I get the compulsion on the left to ignore Governor Northam, but [Deleted]
Any public hanging after 1936 was a lynching, despite her attempt to spin it.
Yes, it is racist.
I hate racists.
Any public hanging after 1936 was a lynching, despite her attempt to spin it.
????? Spin what? What argument are you possibly trying to make here?
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For those not in the know, MS has several black colleges.
There is no way this saying is racist. Public hangings happened quite often in our history, and the victims were many whites, and in the entirety of the country. Stealing a cow was considered a capital offense in some states and hanging was the preferred method to dispatch the accused. There were also many documented incidents where people would break into jails, take a prisoner, and hang him or her in a public setting.
Just because this woman lives in the south does not brand the saying racist.
Simply another faux outrage for the left, nothing more.
If you can comprehend simple English, you understand that in this context, "public hanging" was the most awful thing she could think of. You have to literally turn your brain off to think that's an endorsement of public hangings.
That's a higher order of thinking than some are capable of. Unfortunately, for some the response is much more Pavlovian.
They see the words public hanging, they yell racism. It doesn't go any deeper than that.