Jayland Walker wasn’t “walking while black” when gunned down by white cops. I’ll start with the police version, because right now that’s the only version there is. According to them, he was pulled over for a traffic violation, tried to drive away, and during the ensuing[...]
Archive for July 3rd, 2022
Another police killing of a black man raises questions and stirs protests
Unfriendly Friendswood, Texas
Actually, the hate rolled in from out of town. Friendswood is an affluent Houston exurb, mostly white, with a population larger than Wenatchee’s (see profile here). They were going to do a Fourth of July parade until the rightwing hate showed up. The grand marshal was to be native daughter Hal[...]
Supreme Court thoughts
The Supreme Court conservatives’ judicial philosophy is “originalism,” the idea the Constitution should be interpreted today according to its authors’ original intent 236 years ago. But they wrote the Constitution for a society based on white supremacy, see article here, and many of the Fou[...]