D.C. Stephenson, and the 1925 rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer
The madness of trauma and the madness of hatred are two different things, and the distinction is an increasingly important one.
***This Substack post contains graphic depictions of violence against a woman and racial violence.
In 1984, my father received a letter from the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. It was a formal invitation to become a member. My dad declined. More accurately, he never responded. I remember overhearing my parents read the letter and discuss it. They did…
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