By any fair interpretation… Wilkerson’s subjects should have thrived in the North through their hard work and leadership. But their success was circumscribed by their race.
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Trump: Campaigning, or Crossing State Lines to Incite a Riot?
Today on TAP: The president goes to Kenosha
