Politics: 10 Commandments and Race

I have had a sneaking suspicion throughout this now years-long battle over Roy Moore's Ten Commandments that there was an insidious racism implied in the entire thing.

Despite the involvement of Alan Keyes (who is insane), Moore's very public recent actions on the ten commandments monument he installed in the middle of the night in the state's Judiciary building are all tinged with racism. The judge who has been the target of much of the invective from Moore and his supporters, Myron Thompson, is African American. Moore's rhetoric skims the white-Christian language used by most of the white supremacy groups, discussing how the nation was founded by Christians and how the Constitution is a document built on Christian principles, blah blah blah.

Now comes this report from the Southern Poverty Law Center via Orcinus on the wide-array of all-white folks who came to Moore's rally last weekend, replete with well-known neo-confederates, operation rescue nutjobs, and lots of other racist and anti-semitic publishers and media hounds.

Suspicion confirmed.