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The 1619 Project Conveniently Overlooks Racist Past Of The Democratic Party

The 1619 Project Conveniently Overlooks Racist Past Of The Democratic Party

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Democrats who advanced a bill in June to remove statues of white supremacists from the U.S. Capitol ignored a central fact about those figures: All of them had been icons of their party, from Andrew Jackson’s adamantly pro-slavery vice president, John C. Calhoun, to North Carolina Gov. Charles B. Aycock, an architect of the white-supremacist campaign of 1898 that ushered in the era of Jim Crow.

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