Mitch Landrieu

The spread of domestic terrorism has many small stories - threats, acts of religious desecration and vandalism that move across the news radar or make a few paragraphs on inside pages of the local press, and no one gets caught, or if so, quite some time later. This is part of the ho-hum racism that eats through our country every day. In other words, we really haven't made it as far as we would like to think - we're still mired in a mentality where they could lynch you, destroy your reputation, hurt your business or engage in symbolic lynchings, like a cross burned on your lawn or the car in your driveway torched. Show less «