It shouldn’t take the NAACP to intervene, but when it did, the YMCA sponsors of a swim meet backed down. Leidy Gellona, 12, of Superior, Wisconsin, was told she couldn’t compete in her “Black Lives Matter” swimsuit by a “volunteer official” who claimed it “w[...]
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Some states don’t deserve teachers
Even if I were passionate about teaching, and intended to make it a lifetime career, I wouldn’t teach in a state that threatened to throw teachers in jail for teaching kids the facts about how America historically mistreated black people and still has a racism problem. That’s only one of[...]
White voting fraud vs. “voting while black”
If you cheat at the polls, you’d better be white. If you’re black, you’d better not even try to vote. That’s the message Republicans are spreading across the land. Black people who inadvertently run afoul of incredibly complicated voting laws can’t expect to be treated [...]
February 4th, 2022 - 9:28 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Banking while black
“Dr. Malika Mitchell-Stewart, who had just started working with the Valley Oaks Medical Group in Houston, said she tried depositing her first paycheck for $16,000 last December [but] was met with skepticism as employees questioned the validity of her check and her job,” a Daily Mail stor[...]
Pence vs. Trump
No, I’m not talking about a contest for the 2024 GOP nomination. In this posting, I’ll be talking about the conflict between Pence and Trump vis-a-vis overturning the 2020 election. Trump claims Pence could, and should, have done so; Pence says he couldn’t, and in any event, he did[...]
February 1st, 2022 - 4:23 pm § in Racism
Problem relatives
Most of us have problem relatives, but not like these. Rev. Robert Wright Lee IV (profile here) is against racism and for removing Robert E. Lee monuments, so it follows he can’t be a relative of General Lee. That’s the thought process behind rightwing online rumors that “the pasto[...]
Truckers behaving badly
“What started as a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates has snowballed into a blockade in the Canadian capital and the obstruction of a US-Canadian border crossing,” CNN reported on Monday, January 31, 2022. But that’s not the half of it. Their behavior has been unruly a[...]
January 29th, 2022 - 12:15 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Teaching right from wrong
A lawyer representing one of the Minneapolis cops present when Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd is blaming inadequate training, Huffington Post reported on Saturday, January 29, 2022 (read story here). The three ex-cops, who are being prosecuted for federal civil rights, didn’t just watch w[...]
Can Federal Reserve nominees be judged on ability, please?
Lisa D. Cook, a Michigan State University economics professor, has been nominated by President Biden for the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. Prof. Cook (bio here; IMF profile here), daughter of a hospital chaplain and college professor, is a very smart woman with degrees from Oxford Univ[...]
January 27th, 2022 - 11:54 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Wanted: White male, age 49 —
So they arrested a 22-year-old black man with a similar name. Read story here. Below: The suspect (left) and the guy they arrested (right) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]