"Pressley & Co. clearly hoped to stir up a social panic. But the weakness and irrationality of their argument serves only to underline their own profound and disturbing racial paranoia."
"Even paranoiacs have enemies, they say — but sometimes they’re just paranoid.
Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a founding member of The Squad, organized 59 Democrats to co-sign her letter demanding a federal investigation of a spate of supposed lynchings that never happened.
The document pronounced its signatories “extremely alarmed by reports of Black people found hanging from trees in numerous states throughout our country.“
“The series of deaths,“ the letter continues, “raises significant suspicion of foul play given the role of lynching in our nation’s history.”
Pressley and her colleagues call for a federal investigation of every hanging death of a black person in the United States, insisting that “inaction by the federal government is tantamount to complicity.“
The letter deems all of this “a national crisis.”
In a post on X, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said how proud she was to sign the missive.
She noted that “this year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the US,” and how we must “address these widespread modern-day lynchings and put a stop to this racial terror.”
It apparently didn’t occur to AOC or any of the other signers to do Google searches of local-news stories about the hangings.
If they had, they would have learned that almost all of them were acts of suicide — awful in their own right, but hardly evidence that we are once again living in the Deep South circa 1892.
These news stories invariably recount how the local police have concluded a person found hanging on a tree killed him- or herself — as well as all the speculation on social media that something more insidious must have been at play.
In one horrifying case, a young African-American woman was found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house in Jackson, Miss., and her death was indeed ruled a murder.
""A CNN report several days ago related the heightened scrutiny around the crime given “Mississippi’s long history of racial violence involving hangings.”
"The police have now arrested a 51-year-old suspect and charged him with murder.
"But he doesn’t advance the Pressley letter’s narrative — since he, too, is African American. " . . . More.
Yet another Dem ripped online for 'inventing racism' as lawmakers peddle debunked 'lynching' claims "An Ohio congresswoman is facing major blowback online after suggesting that lynchings are on the rise in the United States, despite that claim being widely debunked last week.
"In the last year, there’s been an alarming increase in Black Americans found dead hanging from trees. We know what that has meant throughout our history," said Rep. Shontel Brown, D-Ohio, on X. "That’s why I’ve joined [Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.] to demand a federal investigation into possible lynchings." . . .
She must be a disciple of Joy Reid, desperately wanting lynchings of blacks to be true. TD
