Despite the Helms whitewash, we can still see the hood

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05165/521081.stm

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate got around to apologizing for failing to enact anti-lynching legislation when a law against hanging one's neighbors would've meant something.

Though a day late and 4,742 lives short, the Senate's apology was a chance for this generation of lawmakers to register how ashamed they are of their predecessors' inaction.

Between 1882 and 1968, 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced. Seven presidents petitioned Congress to make lynching a federal crime. But the apostles of states rights and white supremacy boxed every piece of legislation in committee or on the Senate floor. The filibuster was once the bigot's best friend.

The Senate apology comes just as excerpts from former Sen. Jesse Helms' autobiography "Here's Where I Stand" have begun circulating. One wonders how Helms would've voted if he were still dragging his knuckles across the floor of that august body.

[NVMojo]

1. disgusting ...helms is disgusting ...

[RamboLiberal]

2. And there are still bigots in the Senate - Voice Vote on Bill

because 12 senators don't want their name on it - we need to find out which 12!

Over a dozen US Senators refuse to sign on to anti-lynching resolution
by John in DC - 6/13/2005 06:57:00 PM

UPDATE: They passed it by voice vote, to hide the bigots. And AP totally missed the real story.

I just heard this on ABC News. They're apparently holding the vote late tonight so they won't have to have a real roll-call vote (i.e., individual Senators won't have to vote up or down). The reason? So they can hide the 12 or so Senators who apparently think it's bad politics back home to sign onto a resolution that apologizes for not passing anti-lynching legislation sooner. Apparently, southern Senators fillibustered efforts to pass such legislation for years.

I don't care if they're Democrats or Republicans, I want to know who isn't supporting this legislation. We have a right to know, and to know why anybody in either party would permit the basically-secret vote to take place this evening in order to his who these bigots really are.


http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/06/over-dozen-us-senators-refuse-to-sign.html

[CottonBear]

3. This a Senate vote? Could it be GA,TN, MS, NC. SC or AL?

I'm a born and bred Southerner, so this is no flame bait. I just want to know.

12 Senators agianst/Nay? I am ashamed.