white moderates
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Fear of a White Moderate
Remember that time when white supremacists overthrew the government? No, not when they subverted the U.S. Constitution by deciding enslaved Africans were three-fifths of a white man. I’m talking about the other time. No, not when they added the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights because southern slaveholders were fearful of armed slave revolts;…
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Hey, Democrats: MLK Was Talking About You, Too
Today, on social media, I’ve seen quite a few white Democrats admonish Republicans not to pretend to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on MLK Day if those same Republicans haven’t spoken out against Donald Trump’s racist “shithole” statement. This is a valid, necessary point; conservative hypocrisy should be called out at every…