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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At the Detroit Free-Press, Randy Essex reminds us that

Since colonial times, America’s white ruling class has worked to instill fear of “others.” The landed elite recognized early on that if poor whites found common cause with native and Black people, free and enslaved, those landed elites were in trouble.

He goes on to argue that this, well, let’s call it “Southern Strategy,” is still being pursued and that Donald Trump’s bogus claims that cities are rife with crime (which is Trumpian code for “full of black and brown persons”) is an updated tactic of said “Southern Strategy.”

I commend his article to your attention.

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