After slavery was abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control to reestablish white supremacy and suppress black civil rights. More than 4,000 African Americans were lynched across 20 states between 1877 and 1950, according to “Lynching in America” from the Equal Justice Initiative.These lynchings were public acts of racial terrorism, intended to instill fear in entire black communities, and government officials often turned a blind eye or condoned the mob violence.The effects of racial terror lynchings are still being felt today, the Equal Justice Institute points out. And yet, there are those who would turn a blind eye to this vicious and despicable act of murder.One of those, apparently, is the Republican Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, who is attempting to scuttle legislation passed by the House of Representatives that would make lynching a federal crime.In today’s podcast, Stacy Fitzgerald puts this into stark perspective in this blog fromwww.NotFakeNews.biz.

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