Biden To Sign Bill Making Lynching A Federal Hate Crime After Century Of Failed Efforts
The story goes on under the ad “For a long time, lynching was a pure terror to impose the lie that not everyone belongs, not everyone belongs to America, not everyone is equal,” Biden said. “Innocent men, women and children were hanged from tree trunks, bodies burned, drowned and castrated. Their crimes? Trying to vote, trying to go to school, trying to get a business or preaching the gospel. False accusations of murder, arson and robbery....