Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin’s (R) campaign “hearkens back” to the days of segregation. Kaine said, “If you look at the Youngkin campaign, they’ve made it about kind of invented inflated issues like Critical Race Theory. To close their campaign with an ad featuring […]
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Segregationist former Alabama Gov. John Patterson dies at 99
June 7th, 2021 Awake Goy
A segregationist as governor, he drew criticism when Freedom Riders were attacked while in Alabama and Patterson did nothing to protect them, despite direct pleas from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to attempt to prevent violence. “As several administration insiders later acknowledged,” Raymond Arsenault wrote in his book “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for […]