A Word: Lynching’s Legacy - Emmett Till to George Floyd
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What's the Ultimate Achilles Heel of a Democrat?
The first attempt at sort of passing federal anti lynching laws came literaly like a hundred years ago, in 19 18. Considering how long it's taken congress to pass his bill, what kind of resistance did people face in 19 18? I mean, where they just screamed out a congress? Did they just shoot at em, throw tomatoes at em? What kinds of things did they face? Ba, it didn't make it. There was no vote about it. You just, oh, we're going to do this. Good luck with that.
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