A. Citizen: Gay In South Carolina


…. you realize that they did, indeed, get their point across yesterday. There’s no denying those lines at the restaurants were long. Your friends and followers filled your Facebook and Twitter feeds not with a dispassionate political or religious argument, but with enthusiasm, anger, and vitriol. And in a bizarre display, politicians had their pictures taken literally buried in fast food bags and posing with people wearing cow costumes.

You used to wonder about those old black and white photos showing otherwise good people in the 1950's and 60's doing unimaginable things. How could those housewives scream slurs at those kids going into the Arkansas high school? Yesterday was a wake-up call, a reminder that good, fine people can be terribly wrong in a ways that only history can reveal and correct.