Saturday Link Love: Racism, Headlines, and Voter Fraud

Saturday Link Love is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

How a Not Racist Cop Arrested a Man for ‘Walking While Black,’ Blamed It on Black People and Walked Away With $100,000, on The Root—“I cannot call her a racist, but I know what is in Cynthia Whitlatch’s heart: Nothing.”

Guess Whether These Headlines Came From Breitbart or 1920s KKK Newspapers, on Slate—“Like many of his colleagues, historian Peter Shulman has cautioned against the excessive use of Nazi comparisons in assessing our present-day political scene, arguing that those in search of historical antecedents should study our very own homegrown history of white supremacy instead.”

Trump’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission Has A Deeply Embarrassing Week, on RightWingWatch—“[T]his week, the commission sunk to a new low after three of its most ideological conservative members proved themselves to be completely uninterested in the truth about elections in deeply embarrassing ways.”

You Are Not a Rebel, on The Baffler—“The far right think they’re the resistance. They think they’re Mel Gibson in Braveheart, when they’re actually just regular old Mel Gibson, screaming about bitches and whores and Jews and then wondering why no one answers their phone calls anymore.”