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Minority Rule
Given the Republican ferocity in trying to destroy basic rights, the road back to democracy is not civic but political.
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A statue of pro-slavery South Carolina Sen. John C. Calhoun is lifted out of Charleston in June 2020.
As Republicans have increasingly become a permanent minority in America, they have resorted to ever cruder schemes to cling to power. This destruction of democracy has been intertwined with the effort to maintain white supremacy as nonwhites became a growing share of the population. The filibuster is both the emblem and the instrument of this minority rule, as well as the connection between slavery, Jim Crow, and todayâs strategically racist Republican Party.
Bayard Rustin.
Bayard Rustin, the influential gay Black advisor who inspired Martin Luther King Jr., was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence and gay rights, however he was kept in the shadows by the Civil Rights movement establishment due to his sexuality.
Bayard was also a chief strategist for MLK’s landmark March on Washington.
Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania on March 17, 1912, Bayard was arrested several times for civil disobedience and open homosexuality.
He was a fearless campaigner for equality, and used his voice to enable a fight for equality which earned him a place in history.