Morning Joe Compares Trump's Rise To Rise Of Jim Crow

[rangerrebew]

Morning Joe Compares Trump's Rise To Rise Of Jim Crow
By Alex Christy | April 8, 2019 11:34 AM EDT

A new documentary about Reconstruction is set to begin airing on PBS tomorrow night and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was on MSNBC's Morning Joe to talk about it. What started as an interesting conversation about the history of post-war America during the Reconstruction Era quickly degenerated into a segment that compared President Trump and the conservative members of the Supreme Court to the Klansmen and Jim Crow supporters of that era.

After Gates cited a statistic that said there were 130,000 black men registered to vote in 1898, but by 1904 that number had shrunk to 1,342, co-host Joe Scarborough asked Gates if readers could expect similar content in his book Stony the Road. "Oh, yes absolutely. Look, voter suppression and a very conservative Supreme Court in 1883 declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional. So think about, twelve years of black freedom followed by an alt-right rollback and a President who refused to renounce white supremacy, Andrew Johnson. Does this sound familiar," Gates replied.

 

Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2019/04/08/morning-joe-compares-trumps-rise-rise-jim-crow

[mountaineer]

Gates is such a scholar, he doesn't seem to know the Democrat party's role in the KKK and opposing civil rights legislation. Is he saying President Andrew Johnson had something to do with anything that happened in 1904? 

[goatprairie]

Gates has proven to be just another two-bit race hustler.
He has a show on PBS called "Finding Your Roots" where he goes over the genealogy of what seems like every leftist scoundrel in the U.S.
My wife liked to watch it starting out. Now Gates seems to be intent on having as many detestable people, like Ta Nehisi Coates,  on his program as possible. She finally gave up on it after considerable whining from your's truly.