Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sounded the national alarm this week, claiming Black Americans were once again being lynched across the country.
The New York Democrat presented the charge not as a concern awaiting evidence, but as an established wave of racial violence.
“This year, there have already been 10 reported hangings of Black people in the U.S.,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X.
She said she had joined Rep. Ayanna Pressley and other congressional Democrats in demanding federal action.
Ocasio-Cortez described the cases as “racial terror,” while Pressley declared, “Black folks are being found hanged in America.”
Their rhetoric invoked one of the ugliest chapters in American history before investigators had established that these deaths were racially motivated killings.
Pressley pushed the imagery even further by referring to “strange fruit” hanging from trees across the country.
That language was clearly intended to produce maximum outrage, but inflammatory comparisons do not become facts merely because Squad members repeat them loudly.
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