White Vigilantes and Black Protest: John Nichols on Kyle Rittenhouse; Eric Foner on Housing
We’re still thinking about the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict in Kenosha, where Republicans have been celebrating the “not guilty” verdict in the trial of a 17-year-old who shot three people, killing two, during the street protests over the police shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake. John Nichols comments on the threat from white vigilantes to Black protest, and on the broader anti-democratic moves by Republicans in Wisconsin and nationally.
Also: Racism in America for decades led to strict housing segregation. But historians are now showing that that wasn’t simply the result of white people…
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