In his WorldPost essay titled “Ukraine’s Donbas Is Like America’s Deep South,” Dr. Alexander Motyl presents the reader with a depiction of the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk (Donbass) and Crimea and concludes that their people have “proven to be the most reactionary, intolerant and illiberal population within Ukraine.” The piece compares eastern Ukrainians oppressing other Ukrainians much like Southern whites had done to African-Americans during Jim Crow.
That’s quite a statement. The Jim Crow South was segregation, systemic denial of access to judicial and voting systems, and lynching — outright murder based on race. According …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
