Charlottesville is Not a New Low

I want to be able to say that the events in Charlottesville today represent a new low in racial prejudice. The sickening truth is that this is not anything new, and it has been worse. Mary Turner. Emmett Till. Ida B. Wells made a career of documenting and bringing to light racially motivated lynching in America, yet we don’t read about her in school. From the beginning, America was structured to favor white people over people of color. This started with the atrocious institution of slavery and continued after the Emancipation Proclamation with the passing of laws in the south that practically recreated slavery and continues to this day.