2 nooses were found at the Mississippi state capitol with signs that read "We are hanging nooses to remind people that times have not changed." and "Tuesday Nov 27th thousands of Mississippians will vote for a senator. We need someone that will respect lynched victims."
Some background on this senate election is that it is between Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic former congressman Mike Espy. Recordings have surfaced of Hyde-Smith talking about going to a "public hanging" and suppressing votes of students in Mississippi. Hyde- Smith has also praised a Confederate soldier for "defending his homeland" and pushed a revisionist view of the civil war.
Though, this act of protest might be controversial and may seem offensive at surface level, it was actually a very smart way of highlighting what would become normalized if Cindy Hyde-Smith was elected.
This issue has parallels with the 4,743 lynchings that occured in 1882-1963 (3,446 of them being black people). Lynchings are something that are deeply personal and traumatizing to black people, and the fact that Hyde-Smith would throw that word around so frivolously is deeply concerning, and is normalizing a very dark part of American history.
Mississippi Capitol
History of Lynchings
Although the protest seems a little "out there", I agree with fact that people need to know who they are voting for. We cannot just forget out history, good or bad. The fact that we have public figures supporting ideals filled with hatred just shows how far this country has left to go.
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