Better interpreted as “sorry she was caught offending people”.
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Even giving this every possible benefit of the doubt, which it does not even remotely deserve:
If the framing of “compliment”/“joke” had been “This guy is so awesome, I’d go to an execution if he invited me!” that’s still exceedingly morbid and in very poor taste, especially for a public figure.
But as it stands, the senator specifically chose hanging out of all the forms of execution that have ever been utilized by the state.
That she did this is the state of Mississippi while running against an opponent who just happens to be Black is entirely too coincidental to have been ‘mere happenstance.’
Sure, it’s not.
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…I’d walk over hot coals with him"
She could have said.
… I’d clean his boots with my tongue"
She could have said.
These are unpleasant things. But she chose something else.
I’m an older man. Granted I don’t live in the USA, but I’ve never heard the expression, even during its supposed peak during the civil rights era.
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I am an older man who grew up in Louisiana, West Virginia and Virginia. I have never heard that phrase used in any way at all. Not buying this one.
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If there was ever a case where a citation was needed, this is it.
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Citation for my upbringing? Sorry, I am not famous enough for anyone to have documented my life…
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