Republican senate candidate in Mississippi 'jokes' about a lynching ... her opponent is a black man

Speaking of jokes ...

Oh, the laughs never stop in Mississippi when it comes to "jokes" about lynching:

"If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row."

That’s Mississippi’s Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is facing a runoff election against Democrat Mike Espy—who is black—on November 27, after neither candidate got 50 percent of the vote on election day. 

Mr. Espy called Hyde-Smith’s comment “reprehensible,” and the president of the NAACP said that “Hyde-Smith’s decision to joke about “hanging,” when the history of African Americans is marred by countless incidents of this barbarous act, is sick.” (And given Mississippi’s history of lynching, calling her comment “sick” was generous.)

As for Hyde-Smith, she has:

 … asserted that her remark was an “exaggerated expression of regard.”

Oh. Sure. Regard for who? White supremacists?

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This seat has been white long enough. Let’s turn it blue!