Bet you didn’t know that.
I did not see that anyone had posted this so, from the Denver Post…
A Colorado representative from Weld County claimed blacks and white Republicans were lynched in “nearly equal” numbers following Reconstruction and chastised the main sponsors of a resolution honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day during a speech on the House floor Friday.
Lori Saine (and the irony of her name does not escape me) went on to say:
“We have come a long way on that arc since the Reconstruction, since whites and blacks alike were in nearly equal numbers lynched for the crime of being Republican,” Rep. Lori Saine, R-Firestone, said.
This all seems to have stemmed from a disagreement over who would introduce a bill commemorating Martin Luther King’s Birthday.
Whites were lynched from time to time. Vigilantes lynched Italian-Americans in the late 1800’s in New Orleans (because a jury acquitted a number of Italian-Americans in the murder of a popular police detective). It was not unheard of.
But, to say it was anything close to 50/50 and based on political affiliation ...on Martin Luther King’s Birthday no less...I got nothing. Reminds of the guy at every Breast Cancer Awareness march with a sign that says, “What About Testicular Cancer?”
Someone needs to write a satire: History through the Eyes of the GOP. Chapters could include:
Our First White President;
The First White Major League Baseball Player;
Our First White Supreme Court Justice.
Oh, well. Nothing surprises me anymore.