Rand Paul Stalls Anti-Lynching Bill Despite Pleas From Black Lawmakers to Help Heal Racial Tensions
Source: Newsweek
BY RAMSEY TOUCHBERRY ON 6/4/20 AT 6:04 PM EDT
The Senate failed to approve historic anti-lynching legislation Thursday, as protests over the death of George Floyd moved into their ninth day and his family held a memorial service for him in Minneapolis.
The irony was not lost on legislators.
"Let us pass this piece of legislation today, of all days. Let's give a headline tomorrow or something that will give hope to this country that we can get it right," Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) pleaded to one of his GOP colleagues on the floor. "It may not cure the ills that so many are protesting about, but, God, it can be a sign of hope."
However, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) declined the appeals from some of his black colleagues to put aside what they called his "absurd" concerns with a House-passed bill that would designate lynching as a federal hate crime.
Rather than allow the legislation that is spearheaded by the chamber's three black membersCory Booker (D-N.J.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.)to pass unanimously, Paul has blocked the Emmet Till Antilynching Act by trying to force an amendment to quell his apprehensions.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/rand-paul-stalls-anti-lynching-bill-despite-pleas-black-lawmakers-help-heal-racial-tensions-1508829?piano_t=1
PatSeg
(47,239 posts)What does he accomplish with this kind of crap other than a lot of negative publicity?
still_one
(92,060 posts)PatSeg
(47,239 posts)It feels like Rand Paul time traveled from the 1950s or earlier. It is like he has no idea what has happened in the world in recent decades. Another republican Bubble Boy.
heckles65
(547 posts)why did this guy even want elective office? Why would he want to be part of the State, the Looter State? Didn't he want to be the next John Galt, the next Howard Roark?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)"Why didn't his neighbor finish the job he started?"
PatSeg
(47,239 posts)Perhaps he, like so many republican politicians, has daddy issues and needed to outdo his father in some way.
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... I'd like to quell his apprehensions ...
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)paleotn
(17,876 posts)didn't finish the job.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I posted almost the same thing before I saw your post.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)thought Paul was the answer,well,you are seeing the true Rand Paul,a Racist POS. As long as he can milk something in order get a piece of Press coverage,he will keep on peddling his fake bullcrap.
dem4decades
(11,269 posts)CincyDem
(6,333 posts)dem4decades
(11,269 posts)Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)Grokenstein
(5,721 posts)"I think most of us, if two people were shoving each other in a barone is white, one is blackwe don't want someone to go to prison for 10 years when someone falls over and has an abrasion," Paul said. He later said on the floor that the legislation would "cheapen the meaning of lynching," frustrating Booker and Harris.
Bet you thought differently when your neighbor cleaned your clock. You know what "cheapens the meaning" of lynching? Every time one of your Republican buddies cries for the cameras that they're being "lynched" after receiving mild criticism. Where are you then, creep? Standing behind them with a comforting hand on their shoulder, that's where.
"I understand the emotions. You think I take great joy in being here?" Paul said. "You think I'm getting any good publicity out of this? No. I will be excoriated by simple-minded people on the internet who think somehow I don't like Emmett Till or appreciate the history of Emmett Till."
Poor widdle baby snowflake speck of dog shit, us dum-dummies think he's the R-word just because he's the R-word! (He won't even say the R-word, that's how not R-word he wants you to believe he is!)
SergeStorms
(19,148 posts)No, Mr. Paul, you'll be excoriated by people who know the difference between right and wrong. You'll be excoriated by people who are not racists, and who believe the deck has been stacked against minorities for far too long. THAT'S WHY you'll be excoriated, Mr. Paul. Oh, and you'll be excoriated because you're a stupid shit who's still living in the 1950s, Mr. Paul.
riversedge
(70,047 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)dhill926
(16,309 posts)Javaman
(62,497 posts)asshole in our government.
I would say he's on the right track. LOL
Scruffy1
(3,252 posts)Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul who's the biggest asshole of them all?
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)llmart
(15,532 posts)What is it with voters in Kentucky?
Stuart G
(38,410 posts)someone else's idea. Paul doesn't have to worry about getting elected till 2022. Thank about that one for awhile. Maybe it was his idea. I don't know. His arrogance is because he was reelected in 2016, and he knows most will forget what he says and does by 2022.
(I was wrong about 2018, he was elected in 2016..His reelection will be in 2022. Not 2024..my mistake. Still 2022 is a long ways away...I am sorry I made that mistake.)
crickets
(25,951 posts)Link to tweet
Rand Paul's behavior is abhorrent.
His neighbor can get away with it.
Greybnk48
(10,162 posts)Go fund me or something?
Raster
(20,998 posts)...get your ass kicked over shrubbery and lawn clippings. Now I know.
#FuckYouRandPaul
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Led by chubby chipmunk spawn after it mated with a reluctant turtle, Moscow Mitch?
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Bayard
(22,004 posts)Amy is going to stomp McConnell in Nov. We are sick and tired of the embarrassment and horror.
Somehow I got on Paul's email list, I think because I've sent so many shape-your-shit-up emails. If they weren't so pathetically untrue, they'd be funny.