Trump lynching claim renews pain for kin of actual victims
Associated PressMONTGOMERY, Ala. — Willie Edwards Jr., a black truck driver, was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen who forced him to jump off a bridge in Alabama in 1957. “Either he’s very ignorant or very insensitive or very racist and just doesn’t care,” said 66-year-old Malinda Edwards, Willie Edwards’ daughter. Deborah Watts, a cousin of Till, called the president’s tweet “insensitive and offensive.” “Lynching is the ultimate act of racial terror that resulted in the brutal murders, trauma and terrorism that my cousin Emmett and thousands of innocent black men, women and entire communities of color suffered for hundreds of years,” she said. But we will WIN!” Josephine Bolling McCall, the daughter of lynching victim Elmore Bolling, said Trump’s comment about lynching “hits harder than anything else he has done” as president. Edwards, who lives in Dayton, Ohio, said she feels sick in her stomach any time she hears the word “lynching,” and Trump’s tweet was no different.
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