Jennifer Rubin Washington Post Takes Solace that Black Protests are "Outside"

https://twitter.com/jrubinblogger/status/1206595636872781826?lang=en


"Jennifer Rubin
@JRubinBlogger
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Dec 16, 2019

this was a guy who lived with a black family and had a black roommate in college so it's not like he has lived in lily white isolation"

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"The only solace one can take with regard to the protesters is that they are outside, many wear masks and many are young people.

They (and we) might pay a steep price nevertheless, another tragedy flowing from repression of black Americans."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/05/cowardly-president-hides-again/#comments-wrapper

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"The Lily-White Movement was an anti-African-American movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement was a response to the political and socioeconomic gains made by African-Americans following the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which eliminated slavery.

During Reconstruction, black leaders in Texas and around the country gained increasing influence in the Republican Party by organizing blacks as an important voting bloc via Union Leagues and the biracial Black-and-tan faction of the Republicans. Conservative whites attempted to eliminate this influence and recover white voters who had defected to the Democratic Party.

 The term lily-white movement was coined by Texas Republican leader Norris Wright Cuney, who used the term in an 1888 Republican convention to describe efforts by white conservatives to oust blacks from positions of Texas party leadership and incite riots to divide the party"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily-white_movement