Yes, tonight’s the Big Night! Since they couldn’t find any African Americans willing to portray house slaves in the Civil War Ball, will a few of the old hometown’s white folks put on blackface makeup and appropriate livery to do so? Hey, if the late, notable Missouri Democrat Mel Carnahan could do it back in the day, why not some of Lexington’s current white residents?
(Second from left, at a fundraiser circa 1960)
— MRW
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