After World War 2, the troops returned home to a heroes’ welcome. A grateful Congress passed the G.I. Bill bestowing benefits that enabled them to attend college and buy homes, which provided millions a path into the middle class. If they were white. The law itself wasn’t discriminatory.[...]
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Texas hicks run off black high school principal
Let me say this upfront: Not all the residents of Colleyville, Texas (profile here), are ignorant hicks. Only some of them are. (More about that below.) Dr. James Whitfield was Colleyville Heritage High School’s first black principal. He didn’t teach “critical race theory,” w[...]
Narrowly re-elected N.J. governor says Democrats “not doing enough”
President Biden’s ambitious social spending package is stalled in Congress because two senators of his own party think it’s too big, spends too much, and does too much. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat who narrowly won re-election last week (details here), disagrees. He thinks his[...]
Is “woke” bad?
Aaron Rodgers was afraid of a “woke mob,” TV personality Jake Tapper says (read story here), and that’s why he concealed not being vaccinated. What’s bad here, not being vaccinated and lying about it, or the criticism he might get for anti-vaxxing and believing things that m[...]
A letter to readers about school board controversies
A letter from the National School Boards Association to President Biden (read it here) requesting “federal law enforcement and other assistance” to protect children, educators, and school board members from “threats of violence and acts of intimidation” after a series of dist[...]
It’s legal reckoning time for the Charlottesville neo-Nazis
In Charlottesville, harassment became violence, then injury and death, and now a big lawsuit. Lawyers bankrupted Idaho white supremacist Richard Butler (bio here), bulldozed his Aryan Nations compound, and converted it to a peace park (details here). Now, lawyers are going after the organizers of th[...]
October 21st, 2021 - 3:34 pm § in Racism, Schools & Colleges
This is teaching?
A Riverside, California, teacher was recorded mocking Native Americans by a Native American student in her class. Her final words: “I get to go home.” She was, in fact, sent home while the school district figures out what to do with her. (Wanna guess?) Read story here. Whatever this is, [...]
October 9th, 2021 - 7:18 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Cops manhandle black paraplegic
Newly-released bodycam video shows two Dayton, Ohio, white cops yanking a paraplegic black man out of his vehicle and throwing him to the ground after stopping him for a traffic offense on September 30, 2021. The cops wanted him out of the vehicle so a dog could sniff for drugs. When Clifford Owensb[...]
October 9th, 2021 - 12:53 pm § in Racism
Paint it white
That’s not a new Rolling Stones release. It’s what a Florida city did to a mural depicting black firefighters. Latosha Clemons, a black woman, joined Boynton Beach’s fire department in 1996 and became its deputy chief in 2016. The city’s population is 62% white and 30% black.[...]
Lady, your racism is showing
From Daily Beast (here): GOP Operative Says It Hurts White Kids When ‘Kids of Color Feel They Belong’ A Republican campaign manager for school board candidates in a Connecticut town has sparked controversy by telling participants of a virtual education forum that “helping kids of color to feel[...]