CSPAN2 U.S. Senate Sens. Paul Harris Booker Murkowsi On Anti-Lynching Bill July 12, 2024
Mr. Paul mr. President , i rise to ask expedited passage of h. R. 35, the emmett till antilynching act, as amended. I seek to amend this legislation not because ive i take it or i take lynching lightly but because i take it seriously. And this legislation does not. Lynching is a tool of terror that claimed the lives of nearly 5,000 americans between p 1881 and 1968. But this bill would cheapen the meaning of lynching by defining it so broadly as to include a minor bruise or abrasion. Our nations history of racial terrorism demands more seriousness from us than that. Dubois wrote in his auto bi...