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Michael Feola

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The Civil Rights Act was signed into law 60 years ago today. For many, it represents a monumental victory (if partial/limited/imperfect) for activist energies, pushing the state to uphold its promises of racial equality. And yet, there is perhaps no greater object of far right rage🧵

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Their influencers condemn the CRA as the path to national ruin -- a spur to the "browning of America." The moment when "diversity became a religion." But their rage runs deeper. The CRA is meant to provide a "secret, second constitution" that has supposedly poisoned the state itself.

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