WASHINGTON — R. Kelly says boycotting his music because of the sexual abuse allegations against him amounts to a “public lynching.” Bill Cosby’s people say his conviction was a lynching, too. Kanye West, in trying to defend his inflammatory comments about slavery, has been tweeting lynching imagery to assure fans he won’t be silenced. Conservative commentator Ann Coulter branded the sexual harassment allegations against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain a “public lynching,” and a friend of O.J. With all of the deaths behind the word, he said, people should be more careful when they invoke it. “Hence, when Thomas or West use ‘lynching’ to describe the response to their behaviour, they are using the term tactically, which, by my lights, is reprehensible,” he said.

Source: National Post May 04, 2018 04:30 UTC