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TexasTowelie

(116,554 posts)
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 02:55 AM Nov 2018

White 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, 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 “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.

Read more: https://www.pressherald.com/2018/11/12/white-mississippi-senator-in-runoff-jokes-about-public-hanging/

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White Mississippi senator in runoff jokes about 'public hanging' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2018 OP
Classy with a K, Cindy... RHMerriman Nov 2018 #1
It's one of the 'more believable' excuses, I suppose ... mr_lebowski Nov 2018 #2
It will be political malpractice if Espy doesn't use this gift every day. Funtatlaguy Nov 2018 #3
I NEVER HEARD OF THIS SAYING??? ROB-ROX Nov 2018 #4
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. It's one of the 'more believable' excuses, I suppose ...
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 03:30 AM
Nov 2018

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 ...

ROB-ROX

(767 posts)
4. I NEVER HEARD OF THIS SAYING???
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 04:53 PM
Nov 2018

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......

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