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What Could Go Wrong?

Gotterdammerung! [Thank you Richard Wagner for the operatic "Ring"] Let me count the ways [And a hat tip to Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- "Sonnet 43"] "We're going to have to see what happens" [Not to be outdone by some 19th…

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“We Face the Dawn”

Spottswood Robinson and Oliver Hill  John Lewis, C. J. Vivian, Joseph Lowery And Spottswood Robinson, Oliver Hill     I am ripping off the title of Margaret Edds' magnificent book on the long, bitter, and painful struggle to desegregate Virginia's…

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Law and Skin Color and “Crime”

(Getty Images) Slave Patrols and Police: Oh Yes, They're Connected In America, from colonial times, "skin color" was a potential crime. Signs being carried around Lafayette Park in Washington and posted on the eight-foot high fence keeping people from the…

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Not by Design, By Accident

A Book Review on the Nation's First Black Governor, And Virginia's Racist History for All to See Out at Same Time I finished my review of Doug Wilder's  Son of Virginia, now out in paperback, on Pearl Harbor Day for…

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