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Talk of ‘Jim Crow’ Stokes Fires of Outrage

Talk of ‘Jim Crow’ Stokes Fires of Outrage
President Joe Biden talks to reporters during the first news conference of his presidency in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 25, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Little did I know when I wrote in this space three weeks ago (see “Lies That Democrats Tell” in The Epoch Times of March 19, 2021) about the preposterous claim that “Republicans want to go back to Jim Crow,” that this was about to become the latest progressive article of faith—reported over and over again in the media as if it were a simple matter of fact, for blatantly partisan political purposes.
James Bowman
James Bowman
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James Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The author of “Honor: A History,” he is a movie critic for The American Spectator and the media critic for The New Criterion.
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