Brazen Bigots

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  March 5th at 05:43 PM  | 

The place: a city in Texas The setting: a city council hearing on a local construction project The chair: the wife of a powerful white Republican Congressman What happened? Black residents of the city were told to their faces they should leave the hearing. A black labor leader who argued that the project would bring in good jobs was told by the chair, “Those workers | Read More »