• MSNBC’s Ja’han Jones also calls Byron Donalds a prop in the usual code language against black Republicans.
• Republicans love highlighting the fact that many Black people were aligned with the GOP more than a century ago, largely stemming from the party’s alignment with the Union during the Civil War. It’s a word game they play, hoping Black folks will be dumb enough to mistake today’s overtly racist Republican Party with the Civil War-era Republican Party that helped end slavery … because they share the same name.

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