Fairfax Compares Himself to Lynching Victims

“Embattled Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) compared himself to Jim Crow-era lynching victims in a surprise speech Sunday, as he resists widespread calls to resign prompted by allegations of sexual assault,” the AP reports.

Said Fairfax: “I’ve heard much about anti-lynching on the floor of this very Senate, where people were not given any due process whatsoever, and we rue that. And we talk about hundreds, at least 100 terror lynchings that have happened in the Commonwealth of Virginia under those very same auspices. And yet we stand here in a rush to judgment with nothing but accusations and no facts and we decide that we are willing to do the same thing.”

“When he finished his five-minute impromptu speech, stunned senators sat in awkward silence.”