History may not repeat, but it does rhyme, and this fits the same old beats of American-style intellectual dishonesty, moral hypocrisy, authoritarians' weapons of mass perception, and anti-democratic state violence.
“The object of the [14] Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things, it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms of unsatisfactory to either.”
― Justice Henry Billings Brown, author of the majority opinion Plessy v. Ferguson, SCOTUS 1896
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