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Related: About this forumWhite Mississippi senator in runoff jokes about 'public hanging'
JACKSON, Miss. 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, Id 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 an exaggerated expression of regard for a friend who invited her to speak, and any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous.
Mississippi has a bitter 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 most of any state.
Hyde-Smith is challenged by former congressman and former U.S. agriculture secretary Mike Espy.
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RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)Classy with a K, Cindy...
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I mean, it's not IMPOSSIBLE that her story is truthful, and it wasn't meant to connote ... what one might assume it connotes.
No matter what though ... at best ... it's seems like a pretty darn odd turn of phrase.
But then, maybe I'm just not up on my old-timey (but totally non-racist) Southern colloquialisms ...
Funtatlaguy
(11,793 posts)ROB-ROX
(767 posts)I guess these people make it up as they go along in life. I agree the killing of people was a standard practice for people who did not like other people. I never visited this state but I did attend school in Memphis after I graduated from high school in California. I was warned by a guy from this state not to visit because the people did not like strangers even if you were born in the state......