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How can anyone in the Senate stand in the light of day and not support this legislation? Have we not progrseed any further than this?
Maybe not. I was listening to NPR last weekend and heard a story by two journalists, one black and one white, who were travelling to Philadelphia, Mississippi, to cover the Killen trial (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4085238.stm). They stopped to talk to some local residents who waved to them, but as soon as they got out of the car, they were told to get back in and drive away because otherwise they might be shot.
Some parts of this country are still deeply, deeply sick.
The US Senate has apologised for spending decades blocking efforts to make lynchings and mob violence against black Americans a federal crime.
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The text apologises for the Senate's failure to act and "expresses the deepest sympathies and most solemn regrets of the Senate to the descendants of victims of lynching".
The vote was passed without opposition - though 20 of the 100 senators did not put their names to a statement supporting it.
How can anyone in the Senate stand in the light of day and not support this legislation? Have we not progrseed any further than this?
Maybe not. I was listening to NPR last weekend and heard a story by two journalists, one black and one white, who were travelling to Philadelphia, Mississippi, to cover the Killen trial (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4085238.stm). They stopped to talk to some local residents who waved to them, but as soon as they got out of the car, they were told to get back in and drive away because otherwise they might be shot.
Some parts of this country are still deeply, deeply sick.
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Date: 2005-06-14 05:39 pm (UTC)