H/T Graphic: Buzzflash.com There were two “Friday night massacres” in May of Inspectors General over the past month, resulting in the firing of four Inspectors General investigating claims of corruption in the Trump administration. Friday night, the most corrupt attorney general in the history of the United States in an attempted “Friday night massacre” announced … Read more
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
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
While all of the media will focus their attention on Donald Trump’s Nuremberg-style death cult rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma tomorrow, where his disastrous failures of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic, the collapsing economy, and systemic racism in America will all collide — the media are the lookie-loos who crane their necks to check out this train … Read more
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