I was in South Carolina last week: scene of the trial and home of the Murdaugh dynasty. Both tell us a lot about race and power today, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
I was in South Carolina last week: scene of the trial and home of the Murdaugh dynasty. Both tell us a lot about race and power todayhere have been bigger trials with splashier consequences, but for pure drama – and a window on the way entrenched privilege works in the US south – thethis week at the Colleton county courthouse in Walterboro, South Carolina, are hard to match.
refer to it as “Murdaugh country”. Alex Murdaugh, a lawyer at the family firm he is charged with defrauding, stands accused That this story unfolds in the south, cradle of the good-old-boy network of near-oligarchical governance, is no coincidence. I happened to be in South Carolina last week and it’s very beautiful, but woo, to an outsider, it’s intensely weird. White tour guides lead white tour groups around downtown Charleston, cheerfully pointing out where enslaved people were sold, before pulling up at the gift shop.
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