Can Hatred Be a Virtue?
Category: POLITICS
People who defend racist rhetoric and symbols are complicit in the resulting racist violence. They may as well own that. Neither the Confederate flag nor racist rhetoric -- overt or covert -- killed nine people in Charleston, but symbols and rhetoric created the environment in which it was possible, indeed likely.
By Shannon Gilreath, ContributorProfessor of Law & Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality..., 2015-06-26