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Individual just like the george floyd justice in policing act has stalled in the senate, so has legislation to make lynching a federal crime. >> and if memory serves, the last time the senate made a go of it to try to overturn the lynching law it was then senator kamala harris and senator cory booker who pushed it. and it was senator rand paul who blocked it. >> exactly right. >> for some reason. >> well, he was -- he was debating over, you know, what actually constituted a lynching. and i think historically people have looked at lynchings as hangings. but lynchings were not always hangings. e...

Justice and policing act. that has stalled in the senate. so has legislation to make lynching a federal crime. >> and if memory serves, the last time the senate made a go of it to try and overturn the lynching law, it was then senator kamala harris. and senator cory booker who pushed. it and it was senator rand paul who blocked it for some reason. >> exactly right. he was debating over what's actually constituted a lynching. and i think, historically, people have looked at lynching as hanging's. but lynchings were not always hangings until it was beat to that. people were shot. there was often...

This is a legalized lynching law, let's be honest. this wasn't black citizens could go legally arrest a white person in georgia. this was used by white citizens to quote unquote arrest any black person they wanted and kill them. i wonder if the vibe and atmosphere of the way georgia operated really since the civil war era plays into this with a bunch of jurors, many of whom are probably gun owners and thinking i don't know that i want the liability for killing somebody because i made an assumption because i saw a black guy jogging. i don't know i want to be in the position of these defendants....

What do you think when you heard this? >> ignorance. not knowing. she needs to go to the new museum in washington, d.c. for one. the first exhibit you go through is the slave exhibit. so let's go back. let's go back factually. this year marks 400 years since the first slaves were brought to this country from africa. even though slavery was abolished, there's still a residue. descendants of slaves in this country, blacks, african-americans still have the highest numbers of negatives in almost every category. so you may have ended slavery, but there is still a disparity and still racism and bigo...

Museum in washington, d.c. for one. the first exhibit you go through is the slave exhibit. so let's go back. let's go back factually. this year marks 400 years since the first slaves were brought to this country from africa. even though slavery was abolished, there's still a residue. descendants of slaves in this country, blacks, african-americans still have the highest numbers of negatives in almost every category. so you may have ended slavery, but there is still a disparity and still racism and bigotry. we do not have on the books yet, i believe that lynching law, anti-lynching law, it's no...