Quote of the millenium
by digby
Richard Cohen, highly paid "liberal" columnist for the Washington Post.
“I sometimes think I have spent years unlearning what I learned earlier in my life….slavery was not a benign institution in which mostly benevolent whites owned innocent and grateful blacks…Steve McQueen’s stunning movie “12 Years a Slave” is one of those unlearning experiences.”
Read the whole thing. That is not a misrepresentation. He truly didn't understand the horror of slavery until he saw it depicted in a movie.
Again, this is a person who is a designated "liberal" columnist at one of the two most influential newspapers in the nation.
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