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I Keep Seeing Jeff Sessions in Black & White
3 min readNov 22, 2016
The visage of the forthcoming United States Attorney General reminds me of familiar faces from The Old South.
If you live in the relatively comfortable bubble of a blue state, you might not have been feeling as visceral a reaction to Trump’s tapping of Jeff Sessions for US Attorney General as those of us close to Session’s home state of Alabama.
Sessions is a familiar face to politically aware Southerners, and while most are now awakening to the fact that Sessions was denied a federal judgeship by the US Senate in the 80s for making racist comments (surely not the most racially-aware decade or the most woke bunch of Senators) I can’t stop seeing the Sessions appointment — and his face — in black and white.
