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To: DMaA who wrote (118699)	6/7/2005 4:35:30 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793927

Taranto misses the point completely - murder is a matter for the States to deal with: Meanwhile, USA Today reports (penultimate item) that the Senate will pass a resolution next week in which it "belatedly apologizes for failing to pass anti-lynching legislation": Doria Dee Johnson, an author and lecturer on lynchings, says she will be in the chamber next Monday when the Senate will take up a resolution expressing remorse for not stopping a crime that took the lives of at least 4,742 people, mostly blacks, from 1882 to 1968. . . . The Senate resolution, sponsored by Sens. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and George Allen, R-Va., notes that nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in the first half of the 20th century and that seven presidents petitioned Congress to end lynching. But Senate filibusters blocked anti-lynching legislation for decades, Johnson said. It's a shame the apology didn't come up a few weeks ago, when Democrats were still touting the filibuster as one of the glories of American government.