![]() ![]() "We're going to do it on a bullhorn." What Rand Paul said about the Civil Rights Act "Republicans will talk about race using dog whistles," she said. Keaton said there are "so many other ways in which terror is invoked on Black communities." She pointed to last month's mass shooting in Buffalo, where a white man who has been linked to white supremacist hatred and apparently espoused a racist conspiracy theory is charged with killing 10 people and injuring three more individuals, nearly all of them Black. "And the thing that I would share with you generally about the subject of lynching in this country is: It's ugly. "It took months to get to the point of actually being like: 'Is this how we're going to handle this?'" said Keaton, who added that she gasped when they drove to the location where they filmed the ad, and she saw the noose hanging there - something she'd never before seen. Senate."īooker's campaign manager, Bianca Keaton, told The Courier Journal Wednesday the decision to run the controversial imagery in this video was a "difficult choice." "Now, in a historic victory for our commonwealth, I have become the first Black Kentuckian to receive the Democratic nomination for U.S. "It was used to kill my ancestors," Booker says as he appears onscreen, standing next to a tree with a noose looped around his neck. "In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool of terror. "The pain of our past persists to this day," Booker says in a voiceover as his ad begins, showing a historic lynching photo and a noose hanging from the limb of a tree. The Senate unanimously voted this March to pass the updated Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which is now law. It does not mention that Paul went on to co-sponsor a new (and bipartisan) version of that legislation. The certain-to-be-controversial ad, which Booker's campaign released Wednesday morning, includes a content warning for "strong imagery." Senate candidate Charles Booker stands with a noose around his neck in a new campaign ad criticizing his opponent, Republican incumbent Rand Paul, for holding up legislation in 2020 that would have made lynching a federal hate crime in America. Learn more.Editor's note: This story references graphic imagery that could be offensive or disturbing to some readers. Sign up now!ĭaily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Listen to The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon and Stitcher. Terry McAuliffe to defeat Trump-backed Republican Glenn Youngkin. Then, Sam Wang, who is part of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project team, breaks down the Virginia race and how likely it is for former Democratic Gov. “The way Republicans have acted towards the vaccine is likely how they’re going to act about climate, which is they’re willing to die to prove a point,” says Molly. Tucker Carlson Is Doing It for the Fish Sticks Which also indicates that the climate change fight is going to get even uglier. #CHARLES BOOKER SERIAL#Plus! Serial TNA guest and The Nation columnist Jeet Heer kicks off the episode by comparing some Americans’ resistance to vaccines to people and governments in other countries and, well, it’s pretty divided here. You’ve had to do that.’ Let’s fight together.” “It really requires the audacity to say, ‘OK, I’m a young Black guy from the hood, but I’m going to go into the hills in Appalachia and say, ‘Hey, our lives matter. So what’s his plan of attack? To start, it’s by leveling up with the people, even Trump voters. But the thing that holds true is that we are a people that are desperate for change,” he says. And so a lot of that work is because of what Stacey has done and, you know, Kentucky’s different. You know, they were laughing at the idea of seeing two Senate seats, let alone one. ![]() “People didn’t give Georgia a shot in hell. You know, it’s about our future, and we’re going to get him out of the way so we can do the work,’” he adds.īooker has said in the past he’s using the Stacey Abrams model to turn Kentucky blue, as she did in Georgia, and explains his logic to Molly. “We’re inspiring people to say, ‘Look, it’s not just about how crappy this guy is. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. ![]()
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