https://www.mediaite.com/politics/rand-pauls-kentucky-senate-opponent-charles-booker-wears-noose-in-campaign-ad/

Rand Paul’s Kentucky Senate Opponent

Charles Booker Wears Noose In Campaign Ad

Mediaite, by Jackson Richman

Posted By: NorthernDog, 6/1/2022 4:35:44 PM

Kentucky Democratic Senate nominee Charles Booker released a campaign ad on Wednesday showing him wearing a noose. The ad shows a noose hanging from a tree and historical images of a Black man being lynched and a flag hanging from a building that reads “A man was lynched yesterday.” Booker, who is Black, narrates, “The pain of our past persists to this day. In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool of terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom.” “It was used to kill my ancestors,” says Booker, with a noose loosely tied around