I’m a North Carolina boy through and through, but I’ve now lived in Virginia longer than anywhere else. Visiting its towns and hamlets always leaves an impression.
My @postopinions.bsky.social column today, from Farmville & Appomattox (🎁 link)
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In practice, colorblind constitutionalism has come to mean Redemption without "racism of the heart."
I’m a North Carolina boy through and through, but I’ve now lived in Virginia longer than anywhere else. Visiting its towns and hamlets always leaves an impression.
My @postopinions.bsky.social column today, from Farmville & Appomattox (🎁 link)
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An educator takes a final journey through a county that closed schools rather than integrate.
From Danville, a couple of years ago (🎁 link)
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In 1926, interest in the 150th anniversary was so low that a championship boxing match was held to drum up interest.
Today at 250? “The Claw” on the White House lawn.
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In 1926, interest in the 150th anniversary was so low that a championship boxing match was held to drum up interest.
Today at 250? “The Claw” on the White House lawn.
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“The court’s jurisprudence has effectively ended protections long afforded by the Voting Rights Act,” @drtedj.bsky.social writes.
And from Gum Springs (Alexandria) this year (🎁 link)
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The Black people coming to the South are not the same as the ones who left in the Great Migration. If the region’s leaders continue to apply a 20th-century playbook to 21st-century voters, they may find that in drawing up an advantage, they’ve painted themselves into a corner.
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The poll tax prevented Americans from voting. Republican plans today pursue the same goal.
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Republicans in southern states are gerrymandering the return of Black voters, Theodore R. Johnson writes. https://wapo.st/4elFJBh
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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.
