When Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told a friendly crowd that some of his fellow members of Congress associated with the Tea Party wanted him lynched, he didn’t actually mean it, he told the Washington Examiner today.
Carson’s remarks at a Congressional Black Caucus job fair had clearly attributed murderous desires to unnamed conservative colleagues, with the explicit racial emphasis as he invoked Jim Crow laws:
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