4 January 2012, 4:59 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyer_Anti-Lynching_Bill "The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, introduced by Representative Leonidas C. Dyer, a Republican from Saint Louis, Missouri, in the US House of Representatives in 1918, was directed at punishing lynchings and mob violence." This bill and all other anti-lynching bills until 1952 were fillibistered and defeated by the Democrats. By the Truman years, it became clear that partisan opposition by Democrats would make it impossible for Republicans to enact anti-lynching legislation. So the only way to pass an anti-lynching law was to let a Democrat introduce it, and let Republicans support it. So of course, when the anti-lynching law finally took effect, Democrats took credit for it and declared that the parties had "switched places" on racism. Why are people still falling for this dirty underhanded trick to this day?... Read More »
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