The Racist Roots, and Racist Present, of Today’s Republican Party
Harold Meyerson,  Commentator  -  American Prospect

_Stephan: I am a Virginian whose maternal family came to a land grant on the water that they were given by Queen Elizabeth I, in the early 1600s, and that my father bought back when I was a child. I suspect, but don’t know, some of my early family may have owned slaves, and as a boy, I knew a man who had been born a slave. In spite of that ancien … ⌘ Read more