A PROPOSAL Confederate flag boosters have continued to fight removal of South Carolina’s flag, accusing those who characterize the banner as a symbol of racism and slavery of being bigots and hate mongers. Others in that state seem to want to look the other way, apparently not caring ab[...]
Archive for June 21st, 2015
June 21st, 2015 - 10:45 am § in Misc.
RADICAL REPUBLICANS
Bill Kristol: If They Get To Nominate Hillary Clinton, Why Don’t We Get To Nominate Dick Cheney? Bloody Bill Kristol with the false equivalency of the day. crooksandliars.com|By Heather[...]
June 21st, 2015 - 10:14 am § in Politics
Supreme Court: Agent or enemy of social change?
Answer: It’s ambiguous. Sometimes the Supreme Court goes one way, sometimes the other way. Its justices often “comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted,” writes Ian Millhiser, a think-tank scholar. Which isn’t surprising, considering that until recently all of the Co[...]
June 21st, 2015 - 9:14 am § in Misc.
A Lesson for Seattle from Charleston
“Mother Emanuael” is fated to become a home to ghosts, a museum frequented by curious white folks. I am a Jew. On my first visit to Amsterdam I went to the Jewish museum. The museum outraged me. How can MY people be treated as if we no longer exist? I felt I was surrounded by [[...]
June 21st, 2015 - 9:13 am § in Misc.
Fixing Racism
How to resolve the issues about Rachel Dolezal The pain evoked by the exposure that Ms. Dolezal was born of White and Black racism. Genetically there is no such thing as “black” any more than there is such a thing as tall or smart or Jewish. Being tall or smart does have a genetic[...]
June 21st, 2015 - 8:46 am § in Misc.
The Confederacy Lives
Report: Many Mississippi politicians tied to group that radicalized Dylann Roof A surprising number Mississippi politicians have ties to the white supremacist organization that radicalized Dylann Roof, the gunman who killed nine black… DEEPSOUTHDAILY.COM[...]
June 21st, 2015 - 8:39 am § in Misc.
CAPITALISM
One of America’s biggest grocery chains is on the brink of death The American grocery landscape is dramatically changing, and now A&P is considering bankruptcy. BUSINESSINSIDER.COM[...]
June 21st, 2015 - 1:52 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Pope calls wrath of God down on climate denialists.
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June 21st, 2015 - 1:18 am § in Misc.
What It’s Like To Be Black And Live Under A Neighbor’s Confederate Flag
Dave Jamieson .. [email protected] SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Annie Caddell proudly flies the Confederate flag in her front yard here in the Charleston suburbs. She maintains a cache of spare flags on her front porch, replacing the one on her white flagpole every few months, after it gets t[...]
June 21st, 2015 - 1:03 am § in Misc.
Pasco cop involved in controversial shooting resigns
Ryan Flanagan, one of three Pasco cops under investigation for the Feb. 10 shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, which sparked demonstrations and demands for criminal prosecution of the officers, has left the police force to work in construction. Flanagan, along with Officers Adam Wright and Adrian [...]