Dereliction of duty: Indiana DNR police did nothing after racists tried to lynch a black man, then protesters were attacked by a hit-and-run driver Prosecutors have filed state felony charges against two white men who attacked a black man hiking with white friends to a public beach at an Indiana lak[...]
Archive for July, 2020
July 5th, 2020 - 11:37 pm § in Racism
Is “All Lives Matter” hate speech?
And what about painting political messages on public streets? The phrase may seem innocuous on its face, but as explained here, is burdened with racial prejudice because it’s being used as a slogan by those opposed to the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement, as this video vividly illustra[...]
On the Fourth of July 1852
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass 1852 What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, th[...]
July 4th, 2020 - 1:38 am § in Misc.
The-AVE Challenge: Where did this picture appear?
A. Wall Street Journal, New York B. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston C. Al Jazeera D. Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran E. La Repubblica,Rome [...]
July 4th, 2020 - 12:28 am § in Hypocrisy
JULY 4 NEWS: Sally Heming’s Bedroom
I very much enjoyed and recommend the novel written about Sally Hemings. In that book Barbara Chase-Riboud describes a bedroom Jefferson built in Monticello for the slave paramour. Archaeologists have now excavated an area of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion that had been used as a[...]