LaVar Hosting Jeopardy July 26-30 Stan Account 👁

3/ a mythology of the brave Confederate against the overweening Federal gov't, a narrative that still props up the GOP. Jim Crow existed/

4/ not just in the South (I'm old enough to have seen it) but became de facto if not de jure in the north as well. Hand in hand with that/

5/was a media-aided cover-up of white atrocities - lynchings and horrors like Tulsa 1921 where whites massacred blacks in Greenwood./

6/ Not much changed until ww2 where the nation needed black soldiers which led post-war to integration of the Army. Next big shift came/

7/with the rupture in the Democratic Party in 1948 when Hubert Humphrey pushed for Civil Rights and the Dixiecrats left to for a party/

8/which was later subsumed into the GOP which married racism to greed. Then the 60's when Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' made official the/

9/ GOP/racist connection. And that's where we are now. Politically. Recently though a new angle has emerged from Chris Rock among/

10/ others making the point that racism is a disease of white people. A brilliant insight because it's true. It's our disease. And it's/