Except That He’s White. And Rich. And A Crook. But Other Than That, They’re Still Not Remotely Similar
By The Reverend William Lawson takes the conservative victimization ball and runs it well past the point of pure moral idiocy:
Lawson likened Lay to James Byrd, a black man who was dragged to death in a racially motivated murder near Jasper eight years ago.
“Ken Lay was neither black nor poor, as James Byrd was, but I’m angry because Ken was the victim of a lynching,” said Lawson, who predicted that history will vindicate Lay.
His comments, met by hearty applause, referred to Lay’s recent federal trial on fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from Enron’s unraveling in 2001 and four charges of bank fraud. Lay had planned to appeal his conviction and was awaiting sentencing when he died.
Yeah, getting justly convicted in a court of law for your part in a massive swindle that robbed countless people of their life savings and being dragged behind a car to your death by racists for no reason whatsoever, the similarities are just…what the hell is wrong with a person who would say something like this?