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TexasTowelie

(116,501 posts)
Mon Nov 4, 2019, 06:54 AM Nov 2019

Stop dividing America with words evoking racial terror

"Lynching" is a word that should be discarded from political discourse, especially throughout the South where thousands died from racial terror after the Civil War.

President Trump, now under intense scrutiny in a growing impeachment inquiry by the U.S. House of Representatives, tweeted in a diatribe in the wee hours of Oct. 22 that "All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here — a lynching."

No, Mr. President. You're wrong. You are not being lynched. You are not being physically ripped from the White House, bundled up in ropes and taken by a mob for execution by shooting, hanging, burning, or something as horrible.

What is happening, sir, is that you are facing the very process you deny is happening — due process required by the Constitution to investigate whether you and your administration violated the law in discussions with a foreign country. For the U.S. House — Democrats and Republicans — to do less is for them to abrogate their sworn duty.

Read more: https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/stop-dividing-america-with-words-evoking-racial-terror/Content?oid=29730851

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