Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution ostensibly apologizing to victims' families for the horrific practice of lynching and the Senate's inaction on the issue.

Today's WaPo has this editorial commending the Senate's resolution stating in part, "It is never too late or too untimely...for a great nation to remember terrible wrongs."

Sen. Mary L. Landrieu (D-La.) has a page dedicated the topic and yesterday's resolution which she introduced with Sen. George Allen (R-Va.).

WaPo has this article.

P.S. Kevin Drum (a.k.a. Political Animal, a.ka. King Blogger at WashingtonMonthly) uses this post to tie the lynching resolution to the Supreme Court's decisions on race bias in jury selection.

P.P.S. Several blogs have the list of Senators who did not sign onto this resolution. AMERICAblog has a list this explanation of the events leading up to the vote (via Kos).
- posted by C @ 4:16:00 PM