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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sun Apr 19, 2026, 04:40 PM Yesterday

This man is the son and namesake of Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., who was a rare racial liberal in 1960s Atlanta. [View all]

Kevin M. Kruse
‪@kevinmkruse.bsky.social‬

This man is the son and namesake of Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., who was a rare racial liberal in 1960s Atlanta. If you've read WHITE FLIGHT, he was one of the leading voices against the Peyton Wall and one of the few legislators to back seating Julian Bond.

Now his son is building a monument to a racist

‪Aaron Rupar‬
‪@atrupar.com‬
· 5h

they're creating new Trump cultists in a lab and putting them on Fox News. get a load of this guy.


1:10 PM · Apr 19, 2026

This man is the son and namesake of Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., who was a rare racial liberal in 1960s Atlanta. If you've read WHITE FLIGHT, he was one of the leading voices against the Peyton Wall and one of the few legislators to back seating Julian Bond.

Now his son is building a monument to a racist

Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2026-04-19T17:10:17.147Z


Aaron Rupar
‪@atrupar.com‬

they're creating new Trump cultists in a lab and putting them on Fox News. get a load of this guy.


11:20 AM · Apr 19, 2026

they're creating new Trump cultists in a lab and putting them on Fox News. get a load of this guy.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-04-19T15:20:14.003Z
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