Remembrance of Things Past (Updated) 0
Haley Barbour may not remember Jim Crow, but Mike Littwin of the Denver Post does.
If you weren’t there or have that new ailment, “amnesia Barbour barbarica, read his reminiscence. A memory from 1962:
When she asked which side I was taking, I said, innocently, “I’m pro-integration.”
“How would your mother like it,” she said, and I find it stunning even today, “if you brought home a little colored girl?”
Afterthought:
Oppression is seldom oppressive to the oppressor.
Addendum:
Shaun Mullen considers those who still don the gray and take to the barricades, though they do it today with pen, not with bayonet. A nugget:
Read the whole thing.
