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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 07:11 PM Nov 2018

Trump may swoop into Mississippi to help GOP candidate while backlash to "public hanging" joke grows

The ACLU said Hyde-Smith’s “public hanging” comments show “a profound ignorance” of the state’s history of racism

SHIRA TARLO
NOVEMBER 14, 2018 8:33PM (UTC)

Just as Republican Sen. Christie Hyde-Smith faces mounting backlash for joking about a "public hanging" in a state marred by its history of lynchings, President Donald Trump is now reportedly planning to swoop into Mississippi to save the troubled GOP candidate before her runoff election against Democrat Mike Espy in twelve days.

Hyde-Smith faces a runoff in the race to fill longtime Republican Sen. Thad Cochran's seat. After beating one Republican last week, she will now face Democrat Mike Espy on Nov. 27 after neither candidate received 50 percent of the vote on Election Day.




Plans for a Trump rally in Mississippi weren't yet finalized but it's expected to take place on the eve of the runoff, Politico reports. The news outlet notes that it would be Trump's first rally since his nationwide pre-midterm tour. Trump won Mississippi by nearly 18 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election.

News of Trump's alleged trip comes just one week after the Republican Senate candidate was caught on tape "joking" that she would be "on the front row" at a "public hanging."

Many critics and political observers interpreted the comment as having a link to Mississippi's long history with racism that includes 581 lynchings between 1882 and 1968 — the most of any U.S. state in that period, according to the NAACP.

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https://www.salon.com/2018/11/14/trump-plans-mississippi-visit-after-public-hanging-remark/
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Trump may swoop into Mississippi to help GOP candidate while backlash to "public hanging" joke grows (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2018 OP
So the loser has found a reason to peel himself away from his hidey hole to have a rally eleny Nov 2018 #1
That could be a real doozy of a rally. tanyev Nov 2018 #5
Trump "swooping"? bluecollar2 Nov 2018 #2
..."a profound ignorance"??? ret5hd Nov 2018 #3
But he couldn't be bothered to be chauffeured a few blocks to Arlington Cemetery Tanuki Nov 2018 #4
he neeeeeeeeds to swooooooop! 0rganism Nov 2018 #6
Paging the Obamas, Oprah, Willie, Cher and her buses... anyone who can help GOTV! SMC22307 Nov 2018 #7
Everybody: send clothes to Mississippi DEM HQ to provide NCjack Nov 2018 #8
Keep digging, Spanky. nolabear Nov 2018 #9
lynching is not funny, not the remote past Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2018 #10

Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
4. But he couldn't be bothered to be chauffeured a few blocks to Arlington Cemetery
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 07:34 PM
Nov 2018

to lay a wreath on Veterans Day. It figures.


Hermit-The-Prog

(33,039 posts)
10. lynching is not funny, not the remote past
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 09:25 PM
Nov 2018
The terror of lynching haunts black Americans again

Steven W Thrasher
Wed 24 May 2017

Lynching is back in America’s headlines. On Saturday, an African American student, Richard Collins III, was stabbed and killed on the campus of the University of Maryland in what was widely – and rightly – called a lynching. That same day, the Mississippi state representative Karl Oliver wrote on Facebook that people who supported the removal of Confederate memorials “should be LYNCHED”.

Both cases are grotesque, obscene, and very reflective of our present racist crisis embodied by the Trump era.

The man who reportedly killed Collins was a white student named Sean Ubanski, who is said to have been involved with a Facebook group called Alt-Reich: Nation.

A lynching is a spectacular murder that serves as a warning to a whole group, as did Jim Crow-era hangings and 2015’s murders at Emanuel AME Church. The Collins killing reinforces the fear in African Americans that there is no space or activity – not buying Skittles in a suburb, buying a toy in a store, or going to a party – which is safe for us.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/24/lynching-threats-mississippi-racism-richard-collins

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