From the Louisville Courier-Journal: Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie opposes anti-lynching bill named for Emmett Till
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. warned that "the labor-hater and labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature spewing anti-Negro epithets from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the other mouth." Rep. Massie has supported the union position on legislation just 23 percent of the time since he's been in Congress, according to the AFL-CIO. He is a co-sponsor of H.R. 2571, the National Right-to-Work Act. Massie got an F on the most current NAACP Civil Rights Federal Legislation Report Card.
By PHILLIP M. BAILEY
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie on Wednesday once again burnished his reputation as "Mr. No" in Congress by joining a handful of lawmakers who opposed a measure that would make lynching a federal hate crime.
Congress has tried for more than a century to pass a bill outlawing the practice, which terrorized mostly African Americans across the country in the 19th and 20th centuries. But such proposals have been repeatedly blocked or ignored.