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It’s a historical irony that Louis Stokes’s autobiography is being published now, just as Donald Trump has become the most prominent politician in recent memory to champion aggressive stop-and-frisk policing.
Stokes is the national treasure who first challenged stop-and-frisk before the Supreme Court. His law career was followed by three decades in Congress as Ohio’s first black representative. He died last year at age 90, only days after finishing work on his memoir.
“How interesting it is that a case my father argued decades ago has so much relevance today,” said his daughter, Lori Stokes, an anchor for New York’s ABC7 and the first black broadcaster to appear on MSNBC. “I wish he was here to address it. I wish he was here to help Mr. Trump understand that case.”
The contrasts between Trump and Stokes are fascinating and worth exploring, emblematic as they are of the discussions about race, poverty and privilege that have surfaced in this year’s presidential campaign.
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