Segregated Minds: How pandering to a Waukesha constituency with propaganda perpetuates division

By Reggie Jackson, Milwaukee Independent

“The greatest tragedy of segregation, not merely what it does to the individual physically, but what it does to one psychologically. It scars the soul of the segregated as well as the segregator. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority while leaving the segregated with a false sense of inferiority.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

As I have explored the ways in which Milwaukee’s metropolitan area has become the most segregated in the nation, I have grown to understand segregation as something much more than what people think of it as.

Segregation is much more than just the partition that divides the physical spaces we occupy. One of the lasting legacies from decades of legally mandated segregation is a segregated mindset. We live in a time when this segregation is much more readily apparent than it was just a few short years ago.

A perfect local manifestation of this mindset was on display July 31, when the Waukesha County Republican Party (GOP) offered a screening of Dinesh D’Souza’s film “Death of A Nation” to a sold out audience at the Marcus Hillside Cinema in Delafield.

On the Eventbrite page for the film they described it as “a thought-provoking defense of conservatism and the Republican Party against the Left’s accusations of fascism and racism.”

I have not seen the film. The picture on the Eventbrite page is an American flag in the background with a blended image combining Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump’s faces. The subtitle is “Can We Save America A Second Time?…”

July 1967: In the spring and summer of 1967, the NAACP Youth Council organized several demonstrations in Milwaukee in support of Alderman Vel Phillips’ Open Housing bill. She had first introduced the bill in 1962, but it was not passed until 1968.
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