Day: June 19, 2020

The latest Lincoln Project Ads depict Donald Trump as a Reincarnated George Wallace and a Chinese Dog

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The Lincoln Project released two more stellar ads the last two days that illustrate how much of a calamity KKK Endorsed-Individual One-Liar in Chief-President of Betrayal-Know Nothing-Concentration Camp-Demagogue-Popular Vote Loser Donald Trump is. The first ad called Tulsa compares the eloquent inclusive and progressive leadership styles of Martin Luther King and Robert Francis Kennedy to … Read more

Juneteenth: A Love I Cannot Share, Only Admire

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Today, as a white American, I find myself wondering “What does Juneteenth mean to me?” Maybe that’s a question a lot of white Americans are asking themselves right now. I don’t presume to know or to say what Juneteenth means to Black Americans. Its meaning and expression are defined by an evolving cultural process happening … Read more

The Republican Party is the New Know Nothing Party

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Professor Erika Lee’s recent work: America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States is highly recommended reading for this moment in time. In the book, Dr. Lee gives a thorough summary of the emergence of the Know-Nothing Party (also known as the American Party and Order of the Star-Spangled Banner.) The Know-Nothing Party … Read more

‘Juneteenth’ should be a federal holiday (add two more holidays)

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Most American students have been taught in their K-12 American history classes that the Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to the Union’s General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. But it would be more than 16 months before President … Read more