Governor Ducey steps in Sylvia Allen’s racism

You would think that after his Nike debacle over the long July 4th holiday — he now is denying that he ordered the Arizona Commerce Authority to rescind a $1 million incentive, “are you going to believe me or your lyin’ eyes?” —  that our damn fool Governor Ducey would want to lay low for awhile … Read more

Decades of racist politics has corrupted the heart and soul of the GOP

ABOVE: Some of the “very fine people on both sides” in Charlottesville (August 2017), white nationalists inspired by the election of president Donald J. Trump. It does not matter if I believe Trump supporters are racists. Because Donald Trump believes that his supporters are racists. And that they are OK with a racist president, and … Read more

Trump 2020 embraces the ‘Mass Deportation Party’ label (Updated)

President Trump said in a tweet Monday night that U.S. immigration agents are planning to make mass arrests starting “next week,” an apparent reference to a plan in preparation for months that aims to round up thousands of migrant parents and children in a blitz operation across major U.S. cities. Trump vows mass immigration arrests, … Read more

‘Brown v. Board of Education at 65: A Promise Unfulfilled’

The landmark civil rights U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was handed down on May 17, 1954, 65 years ago this week. The Court’s unanimous opinion holding that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” and therefore violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment … Read more