So Good a [Lost] Cause (Part 1)
Oran Smith, Richard Quinn, and the acceptability of neo-Confederate rhetoric in Southern politics.
Note: this piece is Part 1 of a series. Part 2 can be found here. CW: Racism, white supremacy, racially-motivated terrorism and murder, racist language. Update: as predicted, Smith was confirmed.
Why can’t people see a window into my heart?
-Oran P. Smith (2019)
Modern history classes instill a subconscious White superiority complex in Whites and an inferiority complex in blacks. This White superiority complex that comes from learning of how we dominated other peoples is also part of the problem I have just mentioned. But of course I dont [sic] deny that we are in fact superior.
-Manifesto attributed to white supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof (2015), via The State
Palmetto Promise Institute (PPI)1 cofounder/ senior fellow Oran P. Smith will probably be confirmed to the SC Commission on Higher Education in the upcoming legislative session. Note: Smith was confirmed, with little-to-know attention from local news media, in January 2024, according to an email he sent via Palmetto Promise.
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