Reagan And The Revival Of Racism

Reagan and the Revival of RacismSouth Africa at HomeIn the early fall of 1985, the television images from South Africa stirred politicians along the Potomac--including a reluctant President--to unprecedented, if limited, action. They stirred something quite different in me--a sense of vaguely cynical déjà vu, of irony only thinly masking deep pessimism about the course of recent American history.The déjà vu is obvious. To a white Mississippian who lived and worked in that state during the days o...