This is a terrific piece, and I especially appreciated the reference to NC Congressman George H. White's 1901 valedictory address to the US House.
There would not be another Black member of Congress for 28 years - and no Black member from an ex-Confederate state until Barbara Jordan in 1973.
Stephen West
Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us.
We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.
