Ayanna Presley, Joy Reid, Maxine Waters, Sunny Hostin, Jasmine Crockett, et al: what do these women, all Democrats, want and who chooses them all to speak to America?
"And there is no spate of “modern-day lynchings.” There are just wildly irresponsible racemongers trying to gin up discord and anger before the midterm elections."
. . . "Fifty-nine Democrats have signed a letter written by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) demanding the Trump administration investigate the “numerous incidents of Black people found hanging across the country.” Pressley maintains it’s a “national crisis” and “we CANNOT stand by while strange fruit hangs from trees across the country. We’re demanding a federal investigation NOW so we can stop modern-day lynchings.”
"One of the signees, possible presidential hopeful Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, added that the administration must address these “widespread modern-day lynchings and put a stop to this racial terror.”
"Big media joined the fray. The Associated Press notes that Fortune’s death “stirred distressing memories of the grim history of lynching across the U.S. South,” though reporters knew well that the hanging was a criminal act perpetrated by another black American.
"Not only is there no lynching epidemic in the United States, but there likely hasn’t been anything approaching a lynching since James Byrd Jr. was murdered in 1998 in Jasper, Texas, by three white men. Two of his murderers, John King and Lawrence Brewer, were executed, and a third, Shawn Berry, was sentenced to life in prison.
"The last incident of a lynching by hanging was Michael Donald, in March of 1981, 45 years ago, in Mobile, Alabama. Donald had been kidnapped by Ku Klux Klan members, beaten and strangled, and hanged from a tree. All three participants were caught. One of them was executed.
"Pressley’s cynical campaign only belittles the deaths of Donald and Byrd, not to mention the thousands of others who had been victims of lynchings in our past.
"All 10 hanging deaths cited by Pressley have been investigated. Eight of the cases have been ruled suicides by police departments. Of the two remaining incidents, one is still being investigated by a coroner's office, and the other case is still open due to conflicting autopsies." . . .
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