Willie Horton Politics and the Power of Redemption.
(ThyBlackMan.com) In politics, fear has a color. For most of American history, that color has been Black. No ad has taught that lesson more brutally than the Willie Horton ad of 1988. It showed the face of a Black man convicted of murder. It blamed Michael Dukakis for a furlough program. It told voters mercy was dangerous. After that, clemency withered. Democrats especially learned to treat grace as a trap. […]