Maryland GOP Endorses Confederate Values

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings
2 min readNov 27, 2018

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Fresh off the heels of successfully reelecting Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, the Maryland GOP has shown its true stripes by asking their volunteers to make calls and knock doors in support of Cindy Hyde-Smith, the embattled Mississippi U.S. Senate candidate who recently made national headlines by saying of someone she admired, “If he invited me to a public hanging, I would be on the front row.”

As I have stated elsewhere, Hyde-Smith’s comments show how little regard her forebears had for Blacks they murdered and mutilated and how their atrocities have become normalized in today’s confederate colloquialisms.

Her other controversies have included attending a segregation academy, expressing support for supressing the votes of college students, and championing confederate figures and artifacts.

That the Party of the Republican governor of a blue and extremely diverse state would demonstrate its wholehearted support for someone with such a checkered history on race relations is unacceptable. That they would recruit other Marylanders to go to Mississippi to volunteer for the campaign of a white nationalist candidate is abhorrent.

Marylanders — especially those of us who want to move beyond the history of racial divisions that have sown fear and distrust in our country — deserve an apology from the Maryland GOP and its honorary head Governor Larry Hogan.

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Maya Rockeymoore Cummings

Political scientist/strategist/policy wonk/social entrepreneur/writer/public speaker