Reagan And The Revival Of Racism
January, 1986
South 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 of massive resistance to integrat...
