Over the weekend Mississippi Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith joked about attending a public hanging during a campaign event.
She is running against a Black opponent ...
"If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row"- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith says in Tupelo, MS after Colin Hutchinson, cattle rancher, praises her.— Lamar White, Jr. (@LamarWhiteJr) November 11, 2018
Hyde-Smith is in a runoff on Nov 27th against Mike Espy. pic.twitter.com/0a9jOEjokr
Fun Fact: Mississippi was the lynching capital of America from 1877 to 1950.
