Fighting Back

 The midterm outcomes included a resounding rejection of the messages of hate and intolerance promoted by Trump, Vance, Kennedy and so many of the Republican. campaigns.  Robert Reich at The Guardian provides a good overview of that aspect of the elections, including the ascendency of black, latino and indigenous women to governorships.

In Albuquerque the Art Museum supported the push-back against MAGA intolerance with the opening of a new exhibition,  Overcoming Hateful Things: Stories from the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Imagery.  The founder and director of the Jim Crow collection, Dr. David Pilgrim, provided an inspiring lecture on his development of the collection and how it is exhibited at its home at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan.

The selection of 151 objects from the thousands of items in the Jum Crow Museum provide a broad look at the vast industry of manufactured objects designed to accomodate  anti-Black racism.  I think even a lot of people like me who grew up in the Jim Crow era will be surprised at how pervasive and normalized the racist propaganda was because it was such a overwhelming presence in print, movies and television.