Law enforcement is investigating and conducting interviews after a Bloomington man was allegedly assaulted and, he said, almost lynched by a group of white people on July 4th.
Within a few months of #45’s inauguration it became clear that the greater peril to the nation would be what he made permissible, more than what he himself did.
And that was the rub about the Second Reconstruction.
It achieved compliance…which made possible some among-equals interaction between people of different races and ethnicities. And it worked spectacularly (when juxtaposed with 100 years of Jim Crow).
But some resisted and settled for a grudging compliance.
Keep in mind, this took place in Bloomington, home of the state flagship university and a very blue oasis in a very red state. And that makes all of this hurt even more.