Yogi Berra's malapropism seems more appropriate than ever in light of Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis' indictment of Donny Two Scoops and his not so merry band of election deniers and insurrectionists.
The same script played out, albeit more violently, in the south in the decades following the Civil War. As a kid growing up in the 1950s and 60s in New York, I learned about the cause of the war, but the history of the aftermath might as well have been written and probably was by a white supremacist. We learned about carpetbaggers who descended on the prostrate confederacy in the years after the war to profit on their fellow citizens circumstances. we also learned about the "scalawags" or southerners who collaborated with them.
In reality, this was revisionist history which whitewashed the "war between the states" and those who brought the authoritarian Jim Crow states which held sway in the south for 90 years.
Now, tRump and his henchmen want to bring a new era of hate to the south in the wake of Willis' attempt to bring accountability to the former guy. Let's hope the textbook writers for the next generation brush up on the reality of southern and northern racism and its crippling effects on politics and the law.
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