A number of years ago, I used to present a one hour seminar on “Things they didn’t teach you in your high school history class” – the unsanitized version of our history that is not included in the hagiographic myth making in virtually every high school text book. The white nationalist MAGA/QAnon cult freakout over … Read more
“When people show you who they are the first time believe them.” – Maya Angelou. The Washington Post reports, Youngkin distances himself from controversial rally featuring Trump and Bannon: Republican Glenn Youngkin distanced himself from the most controversial elements of a rally for his Virginia gubernatorial campaign headlined Wednesday by former president Donald Trump and … Read more
Prominent civil rights leaders, the Revs. Jesse L. Jackson and Bishop William J. Barber II, were among about 200 people arrested outside the U.S. Capitol on Monday while protesting for Congress to end the filibuster, protect voting rights and raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. The Washington Post reports, Jesse Jackson among … Read more
Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. Here is a real life example. Donald Trump initiated a number of tariffs in his trade war with … Read more
The media villagers gave us endless reporting on what motivated Trump voters in 2016. It was “economic anxiety” they insisted about being left out of the Obama economic recovery. These media villagers glossed over the fact that this anxiety was “white grievance” about being “replaced” by minorities in the new economy. Losing their “white privilege” … Read more