In Tennessee, Pamela Moses was sentenced on January 31, 2022, to 6 years in prison for “illegally registering to vote” despite her assertion the state department of corrections told her she was eligible to vote (story here). Legal experts said they were “baffled” by the sever[...]
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Poll: Ban book bans!
This poll isn’t good news for the Republicans banning popular books from school libraries: They have almost no public support. Which suggests their efforts to muzzle teaching about slavery and racism in schools may not go over well, either. Of course, it shouldn’t; this is racists trying[...]
Red states are eroding civil liberties
Republicans say they’re for “freedom.” They’re not, except for gun owners and people behaving badly. “States where the GOP controls both the governorship and state legislature are moving in unprecedented numbers to restrict abortion, limit access to voting, ban [...]
Schools can’t teach about this
Two teens got into a fight at a New Jersey mall last week. When the police arrived, a cop tackled and handcuffed the 14-year-old black kid, while another cop pushed the 15-year-old “white” kid onto a couch “but did not restrain him.” (The older kid was initially described as[...]
Conservative blogger dies; will anyone miss him?
Jim Hagedorn (bio here), 59, a Republican functionary from Minnesota who was finally elected to Congress in 2018 after several previous failed attempts, died of either liver cancer or Covid-19 (he had both) on Thursday, February 17, 2022 (see story here). Hagedorn was a loyal Trumper; he voted again[...]
February 16th, 2022 - 5:35 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Ahmaud Arbery was killed by racists
The white men who chased down and killed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery are racists. The evidence in their federal hate crime trial leaves no room for doubt. Travis McMichael (photo, left), who killed Arbery with a shotgun blast, “left a racist digital footprint stretching back to at least 2013,&#[...]
Southern justice
“Louisiana man jailed for 44 years on rape charges is freed as prosecutor dismisses charges after judge calls for new trial” He’s black, of course. White people don’t get treated like this. “In 1977, it took just minutes for a jury of 11 White men and one Black woman to convict Simmons[...]
Arizona GOP candidate’s ad spoofs violence against Democrats
Super Bowl ad depicts GOP “sheriff” shooting Biden, Pelosi, and Sen. Mark Kelly Legitimate political discourse? By the way, this ad is racist, too, unless you think “Crazyface Pelosi” just accidentally sounds like Crazy Horse. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home[...]
February 10th, 2022 - 10:26 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Shot at for FedEx-ing while black
Two Mississippi white men are facing relatively light criminal charges after chasing a young black FedEx deliveryman in a pickup, and then shooting at him, CNN reported on Thursday, February 10, 2022 (read story here; more details here). D’Monterrio Gibson (photo, right), 24, was in FedEx unif[...]
February 9th, 2022 - 8:41 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Questions GOP senators ask black judicial nominees
As speculation rages over who Biden might pick to replace retiring Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer — he made a campaign pledge to nominate a black woman — let’s look at one of the leading contenders, Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed as a D.C. Circuit district judge by[...]