On January 5, 2021, a private jet took off from Memphis, headed for Washington, D.C. Onboard were eight members of Memphis’s country-club elite, on their way to answer the call issued by former president Trump to “Stop the Steal.”
, is a blue stronghold in a sea of red. People from various backgrounds who have lived there describe a segregated world, one steeped in a rich culture but ever tiptoeing around that tension. It’s the home of Sun Studio, where B.B. King and Elvis Presley recorded, and Stax Records, the label of Otis Redding and Booker T & the M.G.’s. Tourists flock to Beale Street, Graceland, and the National Civil Rights Museum.
As a young Black child growing up in Memphis, says Holland, there were areas that parents were afraid “you would never come back from.” Last June, just months into the COVID-19 pandemic—which has disproportionately impacted communities of color—and as the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests reached a crescendo across the country, Shelby County commissioners approvedthat declared racism a “pandemic,” too, and committed to policies “that unequivocally defend minorities and aim to eradicate the effects of systemic racism affecting Black people and other minorities.
The stratification within Memphis is layered—as one Memphis native puts it, there’s a “big city, small town” feel—within which the worlds get even smaller. “You’re either in the Memphis country club or you’re just kind of not,” says a source who is the same generation as Dobbs and grew up with him in Memphis, among the elite. “And the Memphis country club is sort of a nexus of this white privilege for generations and generations.” This is the world of Dobbs et al.
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