The period known as Redemption is little known to most Americans — I’d argue intentionally — but it’s the period after the fall of Reconstruction where Black people are stripped of their rights, democracy falls in the South and the system of racial apartheid is entrenched.

Same!

Started and finished just to know what you were talking about. That was wild! Now to get the group chat to watch

Excellent book. Highly recommend

The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.

Please and thank you!

And this is another example of this administration’s “meritocracy.” Just the dumbest people