Virginia

I was around 10 or 11 when integration of schools began in my medium size North Florida home town. Previously my elementary school was a block or two away. After integration I rode a bus a few miles to a historically black elementary school that was repurposed to only have 5th and 6th graders from all around town. I had absolutely no issue, I don’t recall any of the children having any issue with it but I’m it sure caused plenty of white parents ‘angst’. This experience led me to see that ,sadly, racism is taught to children and the terrible harm it does.

After the last number of years Republicans have no room to hide. If one is a Republican then one is a racist. Plain and simple. No longer any cover provided by the empty phrase ‘I’m a conservative not a racist’. Maybe there never has been any cover, but now it is, as Malaise would say, pellucidly clear.