So Good a [Lost] Cause (Part 2)
I read (too much of) So Good a Cause (so you don't have to).
CW: Racism, white supremacy, racially-motivated terrorism and murder, racist language.
After all, the populists didn’t want to destroy blacks, they merely wanted to disfranchise them.
-Richard Quinn, Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Race (1985)
Last week, I wrote about Palmetto Promise Senior Fellow Oran P. Smith’s connections to Richard Quinn, the SC political kingmaker who pled guilty to corruption this year after an eight-year investigation that implicated some of the most powerful elected officials in the state. If you haven’t had a chance to read it, I would start there. This piece will delve more specifically into the book Smith edited for Quinn’s Southern Partisan magazine.
So Good a [Lost] Cause (Part 1)
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CW: Racism, white supremacy, racially-motivated terrorism and murder, racist language. 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 pe…
While Smith might like to minimize his work with the neo-Confederate magazine today, Richard Quinn was careful to express just how important Smith’s contributions were, in his introduction to the book: “First among equals is Charles Hamel… Next is Oran Smith, whose association with the magazine over the past …
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