“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Rann Miller hears a rhyme. A bit of the cadence:
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What Trump voters, and others, may not realize is that none of this is new, it is part and parcel of the nation’s contract with its people. W.E.B. DuBois, in his opus Black Reconstruction in America, spoke of the racial bribe: the deliberate and strategic method of the planter elite class to extend special privileges to poor whites — particularly in the postbellum South — to drive a wedge between them and formerly enslaved Africans.
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*Mark Twain.
