A bizarre racist outburst at a Texas school board isn't an isolated event — it's part of a national pattern

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[–] 79 points 3 years ago (6 children)

We all know what "Make America Great Again" means.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I mean, they couldn't go with George Wallace's "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" quite yet...

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Holy crap, I was just reading his Wikipedia page. He is such a piece of shit. His wife died of cancer in May 1968. Her doctor had told him, not her, of the diagnosis in 1961 and he kept it secret from her. I knew about the segregation stuff, but that is just the shit frosting on the shit cake.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    What made it even worse was that she was technically the governor when she died. Alabama had a law back then that prohibited governors from serving consecutive terms. However, there was no rule against a woman running for governor. So George got his wife Lurleen, who had cancer at the time, to run for governor in his place. She won, but everyone knew who the governor really was.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    When you hear them use dogwhistles remember that Wallace actually joked afterward that he should have said "states rights now, states rights tomorrow, states rights forever". These monsters know exactly what they're doing.

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