Admittedly I missed Trump’s last antisemitic comment about the “crappy” jew, which is horrible, against Colombia University policy, but not surprising. Even though his daughter and son-in-law are Jews, it goes to show that he still caters to antisemites with complete disregard for his own family. Granted, Jared it so unempathic and detached I doubt he hardly cards, since extreme wealth is an identity above religion and all other ethnicities.

However, I have encounter quite a bit of “quiet” racism int eh 1950 and 60s that showed it was so pervasive and routine it hardly turned heads. Yes, there was the “famous” Segregation Now, Segregation Forever speech, but in some documentaries from 1965 and 68 the whites so calmlin in Mississippi and Louisiana said to the interviewers that “well, as long as the negro knows his place, everything is good” or some version of it. The problem they said was whites and other coming into their region to “stir things up.” It’s just so matter-of-factly told in normal interview style that it doesn’t register strongly like Trump’s rhetoric, presented so overtly nasty. Yet in one case it came from a district attorney, not just the ‘average’ white working man who appeared in the street in rural Louisiana in the other film. The indication was that it was far and widespread so deeply across the region that it presented as just plain speech, by people in power.

Yet, far more danger ran under those still voices which ran deep with threat. White civil rights workers were shot and killed in the mid -60s, not just blacks, as you know. I’ve found that the idea of “the 60s” is one that drowns out the routine murders, beatings, and threats that laced the South. I personally find it fascinating to listen to the Citizen Council Forum now on the MSU (Mississippi State) archive because how calmly the interviews were done will so many of the top politicians and thinkers — all white supremacists. It takes time to shift the emotional part of the brain that keys into vitriol as racist when Trump and his political allies are spewing it that we can forget how quietly presented it was in the South that it was “emotionally” absent earlier periods in political presentations for the first two-thirds of the 29th century. Underneath that deceptive coded gentle charm though lay a penchant for white terrorist violence so depraved it still lingers today in the occasional beheading and lynching.

Thanks again. Such a clean and insightful writing style here I must admit I’m jealous. Very well done.