Robert C. Koehler: Jim Crow wails in anguish
“The concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”
Even if Mitch McConnell’s viral gaffe last week is as innocent as he claims it to be, the stench of something deep — the unexamined racist fear and shame at the core of GOP policy — is unavoidably noticeable: There’s “them” and there’s “us” and never the twain shall meet. And we’ll make sure of that. (Shhhh … don’t tell anyone.)
What’s fascinating to me is the fact that wrote in 1890. Nowadays, racism has to be covered up with cliches and political correctness and, in particular, white victimhood.
