Daily News | Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville injects the ghost of Bull Connor into 2022 midterms
are African Americans, once enslaved and then subject to racial apartheid, especially in Tuberville’s Alabama and the rest of the Deep South. A U.S. senator was openly equating Blackness with criminality, layering on the outrageous claim that “they” have the nerve to demand reparations while taking your stuff.
‘I mean, I’ve watched and listened to A LOT of old George Wallace speeches,” Tom Moon, a columnist for Alabama Political Reporter,. “You’d be hard pressed to find many that were worse than this. In 2022. Just disgusting.” Tuberville’s Minden speech was so blatantly racist that — just a few short years ago — it’s easy to imagine at least a few Republican Party elders condemning it. But on this Sunday morning in October 2022, thehas been as loud as that Minden fire siren.
Still, a part of me finds this so disappointing because of a personal connection to Alabama that I still carry with me. In the early 1980s, when I was just starting my odyssey through journalism in my early 20s, I spent more than three years as a reporter at the Birmingham News.
To be sure, it was a conservative time — the dawn of the “Reagan revolution” — and I saw firsthand the birth of massive megachurches in the Birmingham suburbs and the growing ties between their new Moral Majority and the GOP. Wallace
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