Do We Need To Be Afraid of Trump?

If you believe the basic division in this country is anything other than race, you didn’t happen to catch part of a video played at the GOP convention last night in which a black woman was taunted by some white students at the University of Mississippi because she was demonstrating against what’s going on in Palestine and Gaza these days.

The video clip was described as an example of how at least on one college campus, the woke ideology was being pushed aside by students who understood that the woke garbage needed to be confronted and attacked, but what the video really demonstrated is that there are still locations in this country where racism is alive and well.

Of course, what more fitting location to exemplify the maintenance of racist beliefs than on the Ole Miss campus, where racist demonstrators tried to prevent the registration of a black student, James Meredith, in 1962. Meredith’s enrollment was initially blocked by an understanding between college administrators and the state’s Governor, Ross Barnett, but after President Kennedy sent 31,000 troops onto Oxford to quell disturbances, Meredith completed his enrollment and graduated with a degree in 1963.

Meredith was the first black person to attend what had been a public school which only enrolled white students prior to his decision to enroll. He then went on to earn a law…