Tennessean reports:  Convinced that the right to vote for all citizens isn’t fully protected
under law, U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, is planning a long-shot
proposal to add a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

However, so distressed by voter ID and other election integrity issues, one of the few remaining Blue Dog Democrats resorted to racial epithets and murderous blood libels in his speech.  This demagoguery was used in an apparent attempt to raise the racial temperature of the audience and justify the need for this Amendment.  He compared the current environment to the “blood libels” of the past which raised the specter of false accusations against religious minorities, usually the Jews, that led to arrest, torture and murder of people by mobs.

Candor was on full display when he read off the lexicon of derogatory words to prove a point on hate speech and protection. “As civilization advances, the list of protections grow,” Cooper said. “We need protection against blood libels like…”

He
concluded the sentence by uttering eight epithets, including the n-word
and derogatory terms for women, Mexicans, homosexuals, Native Americans
and the disabled. Then he added: “Equality under the law is the slow
triumph of hope over history.” 

But some in the audience were taken aback by Cooper’s word choices.