Commentary: I've seen this anger before in America

Bob Ray Sanders
McClatchy

last updated: March 31, 2010 01:27:10 PM

I've seen those faces before.

More than I'd like to recall, I've heard the vile words coming from their lips.

I have witnessed the hatred proclaimed on their crude signs and demonstrated in their violent actions.

And I long ago grew weary of their political leaders wrapped in the rhetoric of states' rights, interposition and the almighty 10th Amendment.

Oh, I know them, no matter what name or disguise they now wear. I know them well.

They were in Little Rock in 1957 as nine black students had to be escorted by U.S. troops to enroll at Central High School.

In 1962 these angry "patriots" were there when Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi tried desperately to keep James Meredith from registering at Ole Miss in Oxford.

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