Salon's Joan Walsh: The Government Shutdown is Historically Rooted in a GOP-Driven White Backlash

Joan Walsh's column at Slate is linked below.

Joan Walsh: The Government Shutdown and Race

"On the day the Affordable Care Act takes effect, the U.S. government is shut down, and it may be permanently broken. You’ll read lots of explanations for the dysfunction, but the simple truth is this: It’s the culmination of 50 years of evolving yet consistent Republican strategy to depict government as the enemy, an oppressor that works primarily as the protector of and provider for African-Americans, to the detriment of everyone else. The fact that everything came apart under our first African-American president wasn’t an accident, it was probably inevitable."

---Joan Walsh, Slate