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How the Shutdown Mirrored Slavery in the US
Writing at Salon, Andrew O’Hehir says that the poisonous effects of white supremacy, clearly depicted in 12 Years a Slave, “endure in American politics” and were on full display during the 16-day shutdown of the federal government. Five years before the beginning of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee – future commander of the Confederate States of…
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How White Rage Led to the Federal Shutdown
A “small group of congressman who represent a lily-white, neo-Confederate nation” have caused the government shutdown, writes Andrew O’Hehir at Salon magazine. Their frustration can be attributed to a “white rage and white derangement” about America’s changing racial landscape. Statistics and recent electoral history paint a deceptive picture of an increasingly diverse society that mostly…
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