Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been firing back at Rep. Allen West (R-FL), who named her as an example of how the Democratic Party has created what he called a “21-century plantation” over black voters, with appointed African-American leaders to act as “overseers” — the men who committed the day-to-day atrocities of ruling over slaves in the antebellum South.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=108176