Update to ‘The Tennessee Three’ Give Rise To The Next Civil Rights Movement: Children Should Be Able To Grow Up Free From Gun Violence. The attempt by MAGA Fascists in the Tennessee legislature to silence the “Tennessee Three” for protesting with young protestors demanding gun reforms has backfired on them in spectacular fashion. The Resistance … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris has found her voice again, delivering a fiery speech at Fisk Memorial Chapel in Nashville, TN, honoring the “Tennessee Three,” who were expelled from the Tennessee legislature by racist MAGA fascists and gun fetishists. This is the new civil rights movement: children have a right to grow up, free from gun … Read more
Tennessee is the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan and its domestic terrorism campaign to suppress the rights of the newly freed slaves during Reconstruction. It continued through a hundred years of state-sponsored racial apartheid under Jim Crow segregation laws. Gun violence has always been inextricably intertwined with the maintenance of white supremacy. MSNBC’s Lawrence … Read more
EDITOR: I thought I would repost this essay today in light of an interesting and persuasive commentary today in the AZMirror on a similar theme. Also a post by George Takei (yes, Sulu…) and Jay Kuo have an interesting take on the matter in their essay ‘Vigilante Justice: How The GOP Is Putting The Law … Read more
Last week, Governor Hobbs’ press aide had to resign after posting a gif in a tweet suggesting gun violence. Hobbs’ press aide resigns over tweet (excerpt): At the heart of the controversy is as post by Berry late Monday featuring an image from the 1980 movie “Gloria’’ showing a woman with a handgun in each … Read more