Randi Reading Off The Lynching Non- Signers !!!

[WillyT]

On now!!!

Listen Live: http://www.airamericaradio.com/

You go girl!!!

:bounce:

[WillyT]

1. Told Off The Dem Senators First !!!

Now on the rePukes!

[Nite Owl]

2. Who are they?

I'm listening to Shultz because Conyers is coming up.

[Guckert]

3. But didn't the murdered blacks get Oven Baked chicken with veggies and two

fruits before they where KILLED. what are they whining about?? :sarcasm: Or was it the Lemon Fish with wild rice and two fruits. Yum Yum....DUH

[Gelliebeans]

4. does she have the list

on her website?

[rocktivity]

13. Daily Kos has the list of the Dirty Dozen

link

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Michael Crapo (R-ID)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
George Voinovich (R-OH)

You're welcome.

[David Zephyr]

18. What Scumbags!

Unbelievable.

[Gelliebeans]

24. thanks n/t

[Media_Lies_Daily]

27. Conrad added his name to the good guys earlier today. He is no...

...longer on this list.

Gee, no Dems on the list...not even Southern Dems.

[CatholicEdHead]

29. Glad to hear that

it would hurt him more NOT to sign on than not with his constitutients in North Dakota.

[DistressedAmerican]

5. I Got Commercials. Still Tuned In!

[Roland99]

6. 4 posts and no names?? Come on...post some names!

[Rainscents]

9. Kent Conrad is only Dem who didn't sign on.

[central scrutinizer]

7. Her list is different than the one posted at Daily Kos:

anybody know which one is accurate. Especially since her list contained Gordon Smith and Kos's doesn't. Smith is up for re-election here in Oregon in 2006 and we would love to bounce his rubberstamp ass out. Here is the list from Daily Kos:

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Robert Bennett (R-UT)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Michael Crapo (R-ID)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
George Voinovich (R-OH)

[Rainscents]

11. Your list has only 18... there's 20 total!

[Rainscents]

14. BTW, I saw the list here on DU late last night on another tread,

Golden Smith did not sign on.

[proud patriot]

8. So many are from the North

:crazy: ..."Wyoming has only one congress person
because so few people live there yet get 2 senators
because that's what the Constitution says" Both
senators from Wyoming support Lynching .

I'm sorry to say my own biases led me to assume
they would of been from the south . Since I like
facing my biases honestly , I'd like to apologize
to my southern friends :hug: Sorry

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

15. Actually, you can retract your retraction

Wyoming was part of the slave-allowing territories, as were Utah, and about half of the Dakotas.

Only the 3 Rethugs from NH and OH don't have an excuse.

[Rainscents]

10. Good 4 her!!! I thought she would do this.

[48pan]

12. Can you explain this a little better?

[WillyT]

16. Started Yesterday With This:

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

Which was posted here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1853251

Which produced this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3851625

And finally this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3855939

With many other contributions in-between!

Don't know where Randi is reading from, but she got it out there.

Sorry for not answering sooner. Had ta jump in the shower!

:hi:

[48pan]

17. So let me get this straight...

We're asking people who weren't in office when anybody was lynched, to apologize for not passing legislation against lynching (when they weren't in office)?

I'm sorry, but I don't see the logic here.

[katinmn]

19. the point is many of our senators are closet racists

We only have 100 Senators and 20 didn't sign. That's almost a quarter!

[48pan]

20. Not apologizing for something you didn't do is not racist.

I never apologize for things I didn't do. I'm not a racist.

[Tsiyu]

23. I believe the Senate is acting as an entity -

apologizing for what the Senate has done (and left undone) in America's name. It's a symbolic gesture, not a compensatory one.

[48pan]

25. I guessed as much

It's just another feel-good motion that does nothing. I don't blame any Senator who opposes wasting time on such issues. Calling them racists is unfair.

[WillyT]

28. So... Those Who Did Nothing To Prevent An Actual Lynching...

because it was unpopular, or they might get harmed in the process...

Do THEY need to apologize???

Just wondering how big and comfortable your cocoon of non-responsibility is.

:shrug:

[Malikshah]

30. It is not wasting time to point out one's institution's failings

and attempting to make amends...
unless one feels that it isn't worth the effort
in that case, one can easily be seen as condoning through inaction the lynching
and hey-ho-- we have ourselves a racist.

Not all will see it like this--but the vast majority will--and justifiably so.

The fact that this needs to be explained to folks speaks volumes about the NEED to have all on board....

[gratuitous]

26. On behalf of the organization of which they are now a part

For the better part of the 20th century, anti-lynching legislation was introduced in the House and the Senate. Time and again, the legislation was defeated by the Senate, usually through a filibuster, and often by Southern Democrats. The resolution, admittedly cosmetic, is merely an acknowledgement of that shameful past behavior by the Senate and an apology for the continuing tragedies that occurred in part because the Senate failed and refused to act.

It may be late. It may be cosmetic. It certainly doesn't undo anything that's been done. But for as much as it can do anything, it's the right thing to do, an admission of past wrongdoing, and a hopeful sign of commitment on the part of the Senate that it won't do this sort of thing again. It's the right thing to do, but apparently still beyond the capabilities of the Senate delegations of Mississippi and Texas, as well as others.

According to Kos, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the only Democrat who had heretofore not co-sponsored the resolution, has now signed on.

[WillyT]

22. Hell... I Wasn't Alive When We Slaughtered The Native Americans...

when we kidnapped and enslaved African Americans, when we interred Japanese Americans, and dropped two atomic bombs on their former homeland... just to name few.

But I'm damned sure sorry about all of it, and have no problem offering an apology.

I'm sorry about my ancestors, and am working toward a more evolved and enlightened planet, you???

:shrug:

[katinmn]

31. I agree. I even apologize for all the dumbass Minnesotans that

elected Coleman! And I had nothing to do with it.

[gratuitous]

21. She mentioned Gordon Smith of Oregon

But I haven't been able to confirm that. Kos (or someone Kos was linked to) had Gordon Smith on the list as a non-sponsor, but he was later crossed off. I have a call in to Smith's office, but they haven't called me back yet about it.