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Published: 06/16/09

The Influence of Jim Crow

By  Judy Howard Ellis - Politics Daily
The Influence of Jim Crow

The rising volume of racist hate speech is so loud, the nation seems to be involuntary witnesses at a public seance. Die-hard lovers of a race-baiting America are desperately crying out for Jim Crow to return to mainstream American life. It is sanity-defying that South Carolina GOP leader Rusty DePass thought it humorous to link First Lady Michelle Obama to an escaped gorilla. It is dehumanizing that an e-mail depicting President Barack Obama as a black background just with white eyeballs would stay in anyone's e-mail inbox. But Sherri Goforth, a legislative aide for Diane Black, a Tenneesee ...

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