“This is the year, now is the time, that we do the right thing,” said Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina ….Not for Republicans or Democrats, but for Americans who’ve watched, with bewildered eyes and confused hearts, their government fall short on issues of importance to them again and again and again. Let this year be the year we put politics to the side and we get it done.”
Voter suppression? Racial gerrymandering? Qualified immunity?
The Senate unanimously approved a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime…Without any senators showing up to object, the bill cleared the Senate without a formal vote.
“Representative George Henry White of North Carolina first introduced legislation to make lynching a hate crime in 1900; he was the only Black lawmaker in Congress at the time. The bill never made it to the House floor for a vote. In the years since, more than 200 similar bills have been filed, lawmakers estimated.”
First Juneteenth, now this! What else do Black people want?
(And did Chuck Schumer really need to say “hallelujah?”)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/us/politics/lynching-bill-senate.amp.html
Connect the Dots 101 
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