Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Semi-Slavery
There are more African-American men in prisons today than were enslaved in 1850, someone wrote. It's hard to admit what happened after the Civil War. What happened is that black people were semi-enslaved in the South, as the price for reunification of the country. A slave-whipping losing general became a symbol of brilliance, nobility and gravitas. Nazi punks, his intellectual heirs, now drive down the main street of my California town with Confederate flags waving from their pickups.
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