Texas, like other states, has complicated voting laws. Too complicated for ordinary people to understand. But that’s no excuse. If you vote — or even attempt to vote — in Texas by mistake, you can go to prison for years. But only if you’re black. First there was the case of C[...]
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“Do your homework”
How history is taught in public schools is now a battleground in the culture wars. (It shouldn’t be overlooked that political interference with lesson plans is now also spilling over into public universities, but that’s beyond today’s topic, and won’t be covered here.) As alw[...]
What the Founding Fathers screwed up
Ever since the colonists declared independence on Sunday, July 2, 1775, we’ve celebrated the following Tuesday as the birth of our nation, and venerated the Founding Fathers as the greatest political geniuses of all time. Of course, it’s well known they were a cabal of slaveowners, and a[...]
Trump wanted the military to attack protesters
The murder of George Floyd, a black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white policeman with a history of excessive force complaints, prompted the largest civil-rights demonstrations in U.S. history. Those protests were overwhelmingly peaceful. But America’s president at the time was a white supremacist,[...]
June 24th, 2021 - 12:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
How much prison time will Derek Chauvin get?
George Floyd’s killer appears in court for sentencing tomorrow, Friday, June 24, 2021, and “at least” 12 years in prison, The Hill reports (see story here). Under Minnesota sentencing guidelines, the maximum possible sentence is 40 years, “but because Chauvin has no previous [...]
June 7th, 2021 - 9:59 pm § in Racism
Canada: Car attacker murders Muslim family
Canadian police arrested a 20-year-old man after he mowed down a Muslim family with his pickup truck. A 9-year-old boy was the only survivor of the car attack. The driver, Nathaniel Veltman, is charged with 4 counts of murder and 1 count of attempted murder. Police said Veltman deliberately drove hi[...]
June 5th, 2021 - 8:51 pm § in Racism
“Freedom Ride” driver dies
Jimmy Allen Ruth, 83 (photo), a 23-year-old Trailways driver in 1961 who volunteered to drive a “Freedom Ride” from Nashville to Jackson, died on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, the Nashville Tennessean reported here. He apparently drove the second “Freedom Ride,” sponsored by the N[...]
Under pressure, California county renames “Jim Crow Street”
Imagine living in a small town nestled in the Sierra foothills, on “Jim Crow Road,” and a black UPS driver comes by to drop off a package. Or you call “some public agency” they ask for your address, “and you go ‘Jim Crow Road,’” resident Jim Steinbarth says.�[...]
When will GOP leaders actually lead?
I keep reading that influential Republicans, from governors to members of Congress, don’t like what Trump has done to their party and wish he’d go away. The latest is ex-Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA), photo left, who lost her seat in the 2018 midterms. On Sunday, May 30, 2021, she said on[...]
Do blacks have 2nd Amendment rights?
Heck no! The 2nd Amendment was never meant to apply to them, it was meant to apply against them! And, largely, still is. Oh, a black guy can go to the Bureau of Non-Regulation of Firearms, get a permit (because they have to give it to him), and carry a gun just like white folks. But […][...]