Labor Day weekend is for many reasons a mirth-filled holiday.
This particular weekend began with the American observance of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech.
To anyone with the slightest respect for civil rights and those who have given their lives, marking King's address was inspiring.
Republicans have a different view on civil rights; they're against them and racism remains as Republican as opposing a woman's choice.
While some Republicans cynically pay lip service to critical care for the Voting Rights Act, Republicans are reinvesting in racism, exclusion and disenfranchisement.
Locally in Wisconsin, the GOP's Christian Schneider dove deeper into the sewer, deciding that mocking MLK's address in a deplorable video posted by Schneider in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's Purple Wisconsin is acceptable to his GOP audience.
I'm betting Republicans are wrong in calculating racism's politcal efficacy. Racist efforts will ultimately fail.
But it won't be for lack of trying.
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