Black Senate Candidate Charles Booker Wears Noose In Campaign Ad

June 02, 2022

Charles Booker, the Democratic challenger for the United States Senate in Kentucky, wore a noose in his new campaign ad directly challenging current GOP Senator Rand Paul, and  the history of lynching in the nation.

In a campaign ad that is certain to stir up conversation, the Democratic candidate Charles Booker wears a noose around his neck as he takes aim at his opponent, Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. The ad starts out with a content warning for “strong imagery”, before opening with an image of the noose hanging from a tree. “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,” he says as a montage of images including a noose at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th and those of Black people being lynched is shown, with a cut directly to Booker wearing the noose as the last line is spoken.

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