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Anti-woke Twitter is justifiably outraged over the NY Times celebrating a girl getting unaccepted from College for saying the N-Word at 15. An important, but overlooked, part of the story was focusing on the supposed racism of Loudon County, VA as part of that "reckoning" https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1342997860049068033
The Times views the fact that 15 year olds quotes rap lyrics in the context of the Town's Confederate and segregationist history.
Loudon County and Leesburg were unpopulated rural areas during Massive Resistance. their populations have grown nearly 20 fold since then. This growth is primarily from from wealthy DC suburbanites as well as Asian and Hispanic immigrants (NYT notes the school is only 50% white)
I'd bet less than 5% of the students are descended from someone who attended segregated Loudon County schools. There is no heritage of segregation in Loudon County--it has no heritage beyond recent government workers and immigrants.
"Geographic Guilt By Association" is becoming more common. If a county or town committed a real or imagined racism in the past, then they must "reckon" with it when addressing their imagined racisms of the present.
The Boston Globe ties Groton, MA insufficiently diverse demographics to its "reputation" as a "sundown town" despite the fact that there is literally no evidence it ever was true. Nonetheless, the town is officially repenting.
Texas Monthly similarly derides Vidor, Texas for its demographics--citing alleged past Klan activity and mythical Sundown status, but offers redemption via BLM rallies.
And of course Donald Trump, engaged in Overt Racism by scheduling a rally in Tulsa, where a race riot had occurred a century earlier, on Juneteenth. (He sadly rescheduled it)
This isn't new, Ronald Reagan has long been attacked for having a campaign event within 10 miles of where Civil Rights activists were killed.
Of course, First they came for Mississippi... Even Massachusetts and NOVA once did something "racist." Our joruno-commissars will look up the Wikipedia page of whatever town they are whining about, and turn it into a historical think piece, worthy of their MPP from GWU.
