Clarence Page: No, those aren’t whips the Border Patrol is using while dealing with Haitian migrants
A picture, as an old saying (almost) goes, is worth 10,000 mixed messages.
That’s what I saw in the startling weekend news video of what looked like U.S. Border Patrol agents using whips to round up and shoo Haitian immigrants who had waded across the river from Mexico back across the border.
Shocked commentators and the Twitterverse decried the stark resemblance of Black asylum-seekers and the uniformed horsemen to slave catchers rounding up fugitive slaves
