A South Dakota politician with a history of stirring up racial controversy is using a Black History Month resolution to attack the Democratic Party and claim the U.S. has a “positive history on race and slavery.”
The resolution has raised some ire in South Dakota, a reliably Red state with a meager Black population. South Dakota has about 900,000 people; only 1,400, fewer than 2 percent, are Black.
“Politicizing Black History month is a low blow,” Nikki Gronli, vice chair of the South Dakota Democratic Party, told The Daily Beast, calling the resolution “shameful.”
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