If her childhood was painful because of racism, she has been all too eager to as a politician to embrace the white supremacist ideology that made it painful, Marc Morial writes.
As the daughter of Sikh immigrants from India, Haley’s loyalty to the false “Lost Cause” interpretation of history could not be assumed when she was running for governor. As a presidential candidate, she has proved that she is eager to defend white supremacy by distorting history and presenting racial gaps as the result of ‘merit” and “hard work” instead of systemic oppression.
“The Lost Cause mythology was more than bad history. It provided the intellectual justification for Jim Crow not just in the former Confederacy, but everywhere systemic racism denied Black citizens equal citizenship and economic rights . That’s why the recent retreat to Lost Cause mythos is troubling. One would think that a Republican candidate for the presidency might be proud of the party’s roots as a firmly anti-slavery organization that dismantled the “Peculiar Institution” and fomented a critical constitutional revolution during Reconstruction one that truly made the country more free.” Joshua Zeitz
“The Lost Cause mythology was more than bad history. It provided the intellectual justification for Jim Crow — not just in the former Confederacy, but everywhere systemic racism denied Black
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