Mississippi senator praises man with 'public hanging' remark
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ” A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.”Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith said Sunday that her Nov. 2 remark was “exaggerated expression of regard” for someone who invited her to speak and “any attempt to turn this into a negative connotation is ridiculous.”Mississippi has a history of racially motivated lynchings of black people. The NAACP […]
