This. Holy Shit. Nailed them in one sentence.

[sheshe2]

http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com/2019/05/it-has-been-59-days-since-mueller.html

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'Last lynching in America' shocked Mobile in 1981, bankrupted the KKK



In 1981, 19-year-old Michael Donald's body was found dangling from a tree in Mobile. The murder, carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan, is sometimes referred to as the last documented lynching in America.





more:https://www.al.com/news/2018/04/last_lynching_in_america_shock.html

[Kurt V.]

1. oh my.

[lunatica]

2. Kick

Nothing I could say can top that!

[a kennedy]

3. holy crap........this just says it all.

[dhill926]

4. K & R to infinity.....

[UTUSN]

5. K&R

[stillcool]

6. ouch...

brought tears to my eyes.

[dewsgirl]

7. K+R

[corbettkroehler]

8. May We Never Forget! (n/t)

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. Make sure to note the date, folks.

That’s 1981.

Ronald Reagan was president, I believe.

[sheshe2]

12. Yep.

1981.

[smirkymonkey]

10. That's because they are "selectively pro-life".

They are "pro-life" when it meets their narrow-minded, christo-fascist, ultra conservative agenda. If it doesn't, everyone else can just eff off and die.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Not even pro-life for fetuses if a mother dare ask for needed health services. . . . nt

[PatrickforO]

11. Alabama really is the anus of America. n/t

[saidsimplesimon]

16. Patrick,

"Sweet Home Alabama" , "lots of good people", slogans I refrain from using. We are in this together.

[sop]

13. James Byrd's lynching-by-dragging in 1998

I suppose James Byrd Jr.'s lynching-by-dragging at the hands of three white supremacists in 1998 can be considered a traditional lynching. The three men dragged Byrd for three miles behind a pickup truck along an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas. Byrd, who remained conscious throughout the ordeal, was killed about halfway through the dragging when his body hit the edge of a culvert, severing his right arm and head.

[oldsoftie]

29. And so far 2 of them have finally been executed. Why it took so long makes zero sense.

[AllaN01Bear]

14. indeed .

[SunSeeker]

15. K & R for exposure.

[SCVDem]

17. America just can't accomplish Jack

Shit without people getting killed.

Could anyone please explain democracy to me?

It seems we are more Mob Rule than anything civilized.

Yet we preach our values to the world.

Really?

[bitterross]

18. I didn't know they'd actually stopped.

Given the way so many young, innocent, African American men get murdered by the authorities, I was sure lynching hadn't really stopped.

[SCVDem]

19. Just the method of execution. nt

[McCamy Taylor]

21. They are lynching women. Women will die thanks to this new law.

Women having miscarriages will be afraid to get help. Women who can not afford to be pregnant will get the wrong kind of help.

[sop]

22. "High-Tech Lynchings"

I recall Clarence Thomas re-defining lynching after being accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill: "And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas..."

[dalton99a]

23. Sessions was reluctant to take up the Michael Donald lynching case

According to testimony by Assistant U. S. Attorney, Thomas Figures, an African-American attorney, who was working in Sessions office, made to the Senate Judiciary Committee in its 1986 hearing on Sessions nomination to become a Federal District Judge, Figures says that Sessions was reluctant to take up the Michael Donald lynching case.

Based on pressure from Michael Donald’s family, their attorney, State Senator Michael Figures (Thomas Figure’s brother), work by FBI investigators and local law enforcement, Sessions changed his mind. Sessions says he then pushed for Henry Hayes and James Knowles to be tried in state courts, where they could receive the death penalty, because at that time there were no provisions for the death penalty in Federal cases.

The testimony of Thomas Figures and four other Assistant U. S. Attorneys was instrumental in causing the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 to refuse to confirm Sessions for a Federal judgeship.

Figures testified to examples of his former boss’s alleged racial insensitivity before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying Sessions had called him a “boy” on several occasions and had once told him that “he believed the NAACP, the SCLC, Operation PUSH, and the National Council of Churches were all un-American organizations teaching anti-American values.” On one occasion, when Figures upbraided Sessions’ secretary over what he felt was an inappropriate personal comment she made to him, he said Sessions had summoned him to his office and admonished him to “be careful what you say to white folks.”

In their investigation of the Michael Donald case, local law enforcement found that the three men Knowles, Hays and Cox were regular users of marijuana. This prompted Sessions classic and often repeated statement, “ I used to respect the Klan, until I found out that many of them smoked pot.” An FBI agent confirmed hearing Session’s remark as well, albeit the FBI agent felt it was ‘just parlor humor’. But we all know that jokes, especially at the expense of others, usually reveal what is in a person’s heart!

https://greenecodemocrat.com/tag/james-knowles-age-17-and-frank-l-cox/

[BlueJac]

24. Well said

[marble falls]

25. I do not like going into that toxic corner of AmuriKKKa - Florida, Alabama, Mississipi, Louisiana,

Texas (I hate living here and I'll move as soon as I feel I have a handle on my cancer), Arkansas.

[sheshe2]

26. Hope you are doing well, marble falls.

[marble falls]

27. The big surgery is June 19. Theoretically if they remove everything that the cancer is in ...

I'll be cancer free. We just realized last week I've been doctoring at this thing since 2012!

Thanks for your concern, it really helps a lot. Being around DUers has been excellent medicine.

I think I've read somewhere here your mom is doing better and you're having more time for you. I pray I got that right!

[sheshe2]

28. Good luck on June 19. :)

Thanks for thinking of me. Sadly, she is a couple months away from 93, it just gets harder and I have little time for me. C'est La Vie.

[Celerity]

30. I hope your surgery goes well!!!

[marble falls]

31. I've got a lot of good energy working for me!

[Kid Berwyn]

32. Alabama today completely different place w Gov. Don Siegelman

Railroaded by the likes of Karl Rove and assorted Quislings, the Sovereign State of Alabama has become the test bed for treason, fascism and all that is illiberal.

[MasonDreams]

33. There are some good things 'bout bittersweet home.

At supper, (the cuisine is heaven) polite, positive, and care for one another conversation is the never broken rule. I like to sit on the porch with screens and a bug zapper (mosquitoes at bay) and just listen. Lots if birds in the day and crickets and a hoot owl after dark. Everything grows in the best soil with plenty of rain. Tomatoes, green beans, sweet corn, and peaches better than Georgia. The trees were magnificent, 200 yr oaks and pecan trees that would feed you. All that ugly klan shit chased me away forever though. Nothing but childhood dreams linger in my mind from Alabama