Stuart Stevens: “Mississippi has the highest percentage of African Americans of any state in the country. I ask myself now why did it take so long for me to realize what it might be like for nearly 40 percent of my state to go to school and work under a flag that represented a cause dedicated to the right to own their ancestors? Why is it that I had written books about traveling through China, Africa, and Europe, fascinated by every cultural quirk I came across, before I looked up at my own state flag and thought about the dehumanizing brutality it represented?”
“I don’t have any good answers, most likely because there are none… It wasn’t that I was actively for the flag… but that indifference was just as toxic as active support.”
Coming later this summer from Stevens: It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.
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