The amazing Jamelle Bouie wrote a piece in the New York Times on the scandal surrounding VA Governor Ralph Northam and the broader context of blackface in US culture, past and present. Check it out: it’s extremely relevant to the material we’ve been talking about, especially regarding “double consciousness.” And the piece would give anyone pause before narrating US history in a “progressive” frame in which things are always moving towards tolerance and reason!

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