A couple of days ago, a friend of mine from Alabama shared on his Facebook wall an article from
Alabama Political Reporter by a Mr. Josh Moon.
The title is, “An Apology for White People.”
Moon,
a white man, writes that “white people in Alabama (and other states
too, I presume)…like to pretend a lot that the wink-and-nod-racism
that’s a daily part of life in this State is surprising to us.”
Besides
accusing both “ignorant” and “smart” white Alabamans of being “racist”
for telling “racist” jokes and daring to notice the color of those of
some of their neighbors who cause trouble, Moon submits as proof of the
rampant “racism” of white Alabama the case of Kenneth Nail.
Nail
is the mayor of a town called Hanceville who requested of New Orleans
that it send to Alabama the Confederate monuments that it razed. Moon
thinks he knows why Nail made this request, and it has nothing to do
with “(*wink*) historical purposes,” he assures us.
“Maybe,” Moon
says, Nail’s “decision was made because one of those monuments used to
bear an inscription honoring white supremacy.”
Julian Assange
