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Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Charles Booker released a campaign videoWednesday which features him wearing a noose, in an attempt to highlight Senator Rand Paul s opposition to a 2020 bill that would have made lynching a federal hate crime.The video, which starts with a graphic warning, opens with a sho stanley cup t of a noose hanging from a tree. The pain of our past persists to this day, Booker, who is Black, says in the opening lines. In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool for terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom. Here s Booker s campaign video. Pain of our Past by Charles Booker on YouTube It was used to kill my ancestors, Booker says, as he appears on camera wearing a noose around his neck. Now, in an historic victory for our commonwealth, I have become the first Black Kentuckian stanley cup to receive the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. My opponent Booker continues, turning his focus to Paul. The very person who compared expanded health care to slavery. The person who said he would have opposed The Civil Rights Act. The person who single-handedly blocked an anti-lynching act from being federal law. In 2020, Paul held up a bill that would have made lynching a federal crime, saying he wanted to see more discus stanley cup sion to make the language the best that we can get it. He said in a an op-ed in The Louisville Courier Journal that he was concerned that the langua Drbt Blake Painter, Deadliest Catch skipper, dead at 38
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