Don't Stand So Close 2 Me: Wisconsin & It's Racist Past

After all of Wisconsin's open flirtation with it's racism, the strain had to be excrutiating,...

"I have a dream, too, that one day every darn one of you is going to pay. ... I wonder what kind of people you are. You never get upset about anything."

- Clara Meek, at a Bascom Hill memorial service, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

America has a serious racial problem, that it can't bring itself to admit, and watching Madison, Wisconsin try to futilely distance itself from it - with it's own ugly history of racism standing in the way - should prove,...entertaining:

For demonstrators uniting under the banner of #BlackLivesMatter, the problem is not specific to a city or particular police officer, but systemic on a national level,… 

Citing a 2013 report by an initiative known as the Race to Equity, The Guardian reported that in 2011, "80 percent of youths in juvenile detention facilities in Dane County, where Madison is located, were African American. They represented only 9 percent of the county’s population."

Like King said of Barry Goldwater, Wisconsin's governor makes racists feel comfortable

Considering - with the election of Scott Walker - they've already jumped into bed with racism's worst elements, TMR is betting the residents of Madison can't break it off before everyone discovers what's going on,...