Senate to Issue Anti-Lynching Apology

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- The great-great granddaughter of a black South Carolina farmer who was killed by a white mob nearly a century ago will be on hand next week when the Senate belatedly apologizes for failing to pass anti-lynching legislation.

Doria Dee Johnson, an author and frequent lecturer on the subject of lynchings, says she will be in the chamber Monday when the Senate is expected to approve a resolution expressing remorse for not stopping a crime that took the lives of at least 4,742 people, mostly blacks, between 1882 and 1968.
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Landrieu, in an interview, said lynching and mob violence were "an American form of terrorism" documented in at least 46 states. She said that now, when the United States is fighting a war against terrorism, was a good time to apologize for the past and "remind ourselves that terrorism existed in the United States in different ways."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/06/AR2005060601227.html

[The Doctor.]

1. "Senate Issues Anti-Hate Crime apology"

March 15, 2056
Rueters.

"The great Grandson of a man who was brutally beaten to death nearly fifty years ago will be issued an apology by the full Senate for a crime committed against his family, a crime which could have been avoided if the Senate had passed laws granting equal rights to gay and lesbian couples, and preventing mistreatment of such couples through hate crimes legislation..."

[Solly Mack]

2. And the torture apology comes when? 2100?

[Rose Siding]

3. I found Landrieu's statement significant

It may have happened, but I don't recall seeing another elected official actually refer to American actions in the same context as the War On Terror.

That looks like a break-through of sorts.

[Solly Mack]

5. Maybe it is a break-through

but I sure wish America would start taking the right path.. then the need to issue apologies would diminish.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. I'm waiting for this one . . .

The Republican National Committee today apologized to the American people for Bush regime, the theft of the 2000 election and the subsequent lying and dissembling that led to the invasion of Iraq.

This came one week after an international tribunal in The Hague sentenced former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz each to thirty years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Other former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, were given lesser sentences.

[DivinBreuvage]

6. Good thing the Republicans didn't go nuclear

Because now they can filibuster this.