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Cindy Hyde-Smith was born in Brookhaven, MS, a town she later represented in the state Senate. The last "public hanging" there was in 1928. A mob dragged brothers Stanley and James Bearden, two black men, from the county jail...
The mob hung James from a tree and riddled his body w/ bullets. After making Stanley watch this, they dragged him behind a truck all the way back into town. The men had been jailed after an altercation w/ a white man...whom they owed six dollars.
"Public hanging" in Mississippi means lynching, plain and simple. Cracking jokes about it doesn't mean you're blissfully ignorant of a distant past, it just means you can't own up to a history that will not hide.
HISTORY THAT PPL WILL NOT OWN UP TOO WHO CREATED IT!
Black people were hanging from trees in MS in the 60s....my maternal American history began there...
You are correct. I’m guessing he’s trying to #bringithome for Cindy, since she seems to have trouble with empathy.
That comment was out of order!! One of the most outrageous racist comments I've heard.
It’s a routine event in Miss. Trent Lott, Karl Oliver, Bubba Smith, and now @SenHydeSmith
This Cindy Hyde-Smith is a disgraceful http://racist.No one should vote for a disgusting self-avowed racist woman.
C’mon Mississippi. She has to go. Ellis for Senate!
*@espyforsenate
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