Frank Abernathy, a Nashville lawyer, is a nephew of Dr. Ralph Abernathy, the civil rights leader. He might be the only reasonably sane person in that contingent.

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But I wonder whether he knows what kind of people he’s working with there. His uncle Ralph could have smelled them a mile away for the bigots and right-wingers that they are.

Frank Abernathy has this quote in Russia Today:

𠇏irst I believe the elections followed international standards of democratic elections. I was very impressed with the enthusiasm and the vigor with which the people went to the polls to express their opinion,” US Senior Attorney Frank Abernathy, an observer in Lugansk, told RT.

Mr Abernathy is a tad naive, I believe.