Powerful article. For my part, I'm beginning to understand just what the end of Reconstruction looked like -- a national government too contemptuous of democracy to protect it while it was under assault by the states.
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1018937930524561408
And Jim Crow lasted for 70+ years -- in some states, nearly 90 years.
The consequences of all of this are really too terrible to contemplate. And yet here we are.
Hell, even the Republican scorn for black voters in the South in the 1870s has parallels today with the, "well, you should have VOTED in 2016 #StillWithHer #TheResistance" crowd.
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