Lynching Comparison Furthers Divisiveness

[Khephra]

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Supporters of President Bush's conservative nominees have used the word "lynching" to describe the treatment of judicial candidates by liberal opponents. African American political and civic leaders say that equating a challenge to a judge's nomination with the kidnappings, atrocities and murders that black Americans faced during more than a half-century of lynchings is inappropriate.

When Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) invoked the term last week during his defense of judicial nominee Janice Rogers Brown, civil rights activist Wade Henderson called on Miller to apologize.

On the Senate floor Friday, Miller said that liberals who oppose Brown, a nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, are upset because she is black, conservative and a woman. Liberals are essentially telling Brown, "Gal, you will be lynched" if she pursues her nomination, Miller said.

In a statement, Miller, a former governor of a state that was the scene of more lynchings than any other except Mississippi, said, "I think it sums up the situation accurately. The tragedy here does not lie in my floor speech. . . . The tragedy lies in what is happening in the United States Senate to this highly qualified conservative, African American jurist."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45844-2003Nov15.html

[kcr]

1. When did Zell turn into an ass?

This is ridiculous. Comparing a filibuster to a lynching is so over the top as to be obviously offensive.

[saigon68]

9. ZELL SHOULD LEAVE HIS SHEET IN THE CLOSET.

The tall white hood however, can be used as a chef's hat at the annual Young Republican Feast and Barbeque Day Celebration.

[Eloriel]

13. And he had the nerve to criticize Dean

We should also remember that "lynching" was the word Clarence Thomas used to describe his experience during the Anita Hill portion of his confirmation hearing. "High tech lynching." That was over the top too.

Eloriel

[Eric J in MN]

2. there is a big difference

There is a big difference between staying as a California Supreme Court Justice and being lynched.

Miller's tacky analogy trivializes lynchings and digustingly implies that everyone opposed to the extreme policies of Janice Rogers Brown are racist.

He should be ashamed.

[KeepItReal]

4. Zel Miller knows no shame

If he had any, he'd apologize for calling himself a "Democrat" and switch parties already.

I'd have more respect for a Repub. in his Senate seat. The ending of his term will not come fast enough.

[hlthe2b]

3. Hee, hee... Ole zell is getting a good "smack down...."

SO richly deserved....

[rwheeler31]

5. What has hurt that guy to make him so ugly?

nt

[Guaranteed]

6. Ummm...yeah, this is some of the stupidest

shit I've heard in a long time.

[DFLforever]

7. Any chance he will be at least censured by Senate Dem caucus?

[Raenelle]

11. Another Uniter, Not a Divider--

This guy is whining that the Dems don't listen to Southerners, and I look at him while he's talking, and he spews contempt and venom for anyone who disagrees with him.

[sleipnir]

12. Not really

They haven't done shit to him lately, though he needs a good asskicking into the rePug Party.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. Miller has only hurt the country with his ignorance!

He is an "AS-HO-E"!

[Fovea]

10. Angry over being proved wrong about racial equality

in the sixties, a whole generation of bigoted white Americans now gleefully use the terms that were used against their racist ideology in their own defense.

Remember that the legal arguments used for shrub were essentially the idea that he was being denied equal protection under the law. As if rich White Republican Males were an oppressed minority in Florida.

Ted Olsen is an intellectually diseased scag, aided by 5 whores in SCOTUS. This is *the* battle for the future. SCOTUS proved itself an injudicial body in 2000. It must be returned to a non partisan institution.

[number6]

14. is Zell Miller an Asshole or what ?????????? !!!!

:thumbsdown:

what total and utter crap, how low can re-puke-ickcans
and thier sympathizers go ???