Once upon a time interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia and numerous other states. (In fact, even looking at a white woman could get a black kid killed.) These racist laws were struck down in Loving v. Virginia, a 1967 Supreme Court decision (details here). A perplexed Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN, [...]
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March 20th, 2022 - 1:39 pm § in Racism
Yet another black man is shot by rogue police
“A Black man in New Jersey grabbing iced tea from a car was shot and paralyzed by plain-clothed officers last month,” NBC News reported on March 18, 2022 (story here). Jajuan R. Henderson, 29, was inside the car, which was parallel-parked outside his Trenton home, shortly after midnight on F[...]
Oklahoma house calls
Excerpted from E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes, by James Patterson and Matt Everson (get it here), at p. 246: “We get a lot of calls to deal with emergency situations in the rural parts of Oklahoma, where a lot of people live off the grid, without TV or ru[...]
Trucker convoy shows its real colors
They call themselves the “People’s Convoy,” but they don’t represent us. They’re a fringe group of far-right, pro-Trump racists who’ve hijacked the American flag and term “People” for a barely-disguised white supremacy movement. On Friday, March 18, 20[...]
Trumper hate speech rampant in intel agencies
Trumpers fill U.S. intelligence agencies’ classified internal messaging system with “racist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, and misogynistic” hate speech, a former director of that system says. “Even more startling,” he said, “there were many employees at [...]
What, exactly, are they protesting?
I certainly get the feeling it wasn’t just Covid-19 mandates, but something bigger. In a column last week, Seattle Times writer Danny Westneat pointed out that even though all Washington mask mandates will end two days from now (on March 12), the protests against mask mandates go on, and on, a[...]
March 7th, 2022 - 11:32 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
It took 106 years to make lynching a federal hate crime
Thousands of Americans — one study puts the figure over 4,000 — were lynched between the 1880s and 1960s. About three-fourths of them were black. Lynchings were widely used to enforce white supremacy, especially in (but not confined to) the South, and often were carried out with extreme [...]
What’s Tucker Carlson’s LSAT score?
Tucker Carlson, who’s paid a lot of money by the Murdoch family to be a jackass on TV because that kind of entertainment is popular with people who can’t get into law school,* wants to know what Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score was. (* He’s one of them. He was kicked out of[...]
Proud Boys are “patriots”? Really?
Andrew Walls, 26, a leader in a Proud Boys gang in Akron, Ohio, sucker-punched a black female passerby who objected to his racist language. He also “attacked another woman at the scene,” Huffington Post reported (read story here). The incidents occurred outside a bar on Sunday, February [...]
GOPers cover themselves in dung
Hoo boy. It’s been quite a weekend: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) denounced “fellow Republicans who have sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he believes any such support is ‘almost treasonous.'” (Story here) Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) refused to denounce Trump’s p[...]