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The Origins of Herschel Walker’s Complicated Views on Race
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| Contributor | WA Indy |
| Last Edited | WA Indy Dec 03, 2021 03:47pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Michael Kruse |
| News Date | Friday, December 3, 2021 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. — In the spring of 1980, in this little, isolated place in rural, middle Georgia, Black people clamored for equality and white people beat them with fists and sticks and chains. Bigots called Black protesters soulless animals and cannibals, brandished Confederate battle flags and sent shotgun blasts into Black families’ homes. Pastors and activists registered voters, and sued the sheriff and other local lawmen, and they marched. “Fired up!” hundreds chanted, walking four abreast from a Black church to the courthouse in the central square. “Can’t take no more!”
For days, then weeks, then months, so many people in a town of 2,500 were swept up in the unrest, with one particularly notable exception — the area’s most prominent Black resident, almost certainly its most prominent citizen, period. |
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