As evidenced by yesterday’s announcement of Scott Colom’s historic victory in Mississippi, the modern day pawns so slavishly devoted to Trump and white nationalism are increasingly being outnumbered by a new generation of political activists and regular citizens dedicated to carrying on the work of Medgar Evers as the slow arc of history relentlessly moves toward justice for all. The echo of Bob Dylan’s Only a Pawn in Their Game wherein he describes the apartheid state of 1963 Mississippi , eulogizes a fallen civil rights leader, and implicitly calls for action against the evil of Jim Crow ideology has resonated loudly for decades and embodies the spirit of the struggle against hundreds of years of oppressive racism.
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