Forward Kentucky: Black Legislative Caucus issues statement on Paul’s blockage of lynching bill
By BRUCE MAPLES
The Kentucky Black Legislative Caucus issued the following statement regarding U.S. Senator Rand Paul’s blocking of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in the Senate. The bill has broad bi-partisan support, and has passed the Senate in the past. Now it has also passed the House, and would become law if approved by the Senate.
“On the very week that protests around the world are demanding justice and true equality for African Americans, Kentucky’s own Senator Rand Paul is outrageously holding up anti-lynching legislation that would make this heinous act a federal crime. We cannot fathom what would make Senator Paul take such action, and we demand he both apologize and allow this bipartisan legislation to move ahead and become law. We are as saddened as we are outraged that we even have to make such a request in 2020.”