Irony, Pickup Line One

On the same day as we see this:

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a reputed Ku Klux Klansman accused in the killings of three civil rights workers four decades ago in Mississippi.

Edgar Ray Killen, 80, is on trial in Philadelphia, Miss., for the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

We also get this:

Over a dozen US Senators refuse to sign on to anti-lynching resolution
by John in DC - 6/13/2005 06:57:00 PM

I just heard this on ABC News. They're apparently holding the vote late tonight so they won't have to have a real roll-call vote (i.e., individual Senators won't have to vote up or down). The reason? So they can hide the 12 or so Senators who apparently think it's bad politics back home to sign onto a resolution that apologizes for not passing anti-lynching legislation sooner. Apparently, southern Senators fillibustered efforts to pass such legislation for years.

I don't care if they're Democrats or Republicans, I want to know who isn't supporting this legislation. We have a right to know, and to know why anybody in either party would permit the basically-secret vote to take place this evening in order to his who these bigots really are.

Well, we now have the US finally prosecuting a man who sould have been in jail decades ago, while some Senators are still afraid to come out against lynching. I know I've come out against the notion some Canadians have that we don't have race problems here in Canada, but compared to these guys, we're pikers.