Nearly 30 years ago, the sitting United States Attorney for the state
of Alabama lost his chance to become a federal judge due to concerns
about his views on race. Among other things, he’d labeled the NAACP an “un-American” and “Communist-inspired” organization
that “forced civil rights down the throats of people.” He’d conducted a
tenuous criminal investigation into voting rights advocates,
culminating in an unsuccessful prosecution against a former aide to Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. And an African American attorney who once worked
for him testified that the nominee said that he “used to think [the
KKK] were OK” until he found out some of them were “pot smokers,” that
the nominee referred to his black subordinate as “boy,” and that the
nominee had told the black attorney to “be careful what you say to white
folks” after the nominee heard the attorney chastising a white
secretary.
We’re talking, of course, about United States Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (R-AL).
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