Moral Mondays Has Managed to Go Beyond the Color Line—but Is That So Unprecedented?

Moral Mondays Has Managed to Go Beyond the Color Line—but Is That So Unprecedented?

Moral Mondays Has Managed to Go Beyond the Color Line—but Is That So Unprecedented?

Moral Mondays may seem exceptional, but it is actually part of a long history of interracial political coalitions in the South. 

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Yesterday, Melissa Harris-Perry appeared on All In with Chris Hayes to discuss the birth of the interracial Moral Mondays movement. She told Hayes that this initiative goes against many Northern liberals’ perception of the South, which they see as “so utterly backward and so utterly racially divided.” The reality is more complicated, she explains: “There is a level of intimacy, interracially in the US South that hasn’t always led to equality but has meant that there have been moments when interracial political movements could emerge.” This history of fusion movments since the aboliton of slavery should keep us from seeing Moral Mondays as game-changing, says Harris-Perry,”there are strategic partnerships, but we probably should not expect enduring, long-term coalitional change.”
Hannah Harris Green

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