Republicans wanted to lock her up in prison for knocking on the governor’s door while he was signing a voting law everyone else thinks is racist voter suppression. Standing between the governor’s goons and state Rep. Park Cannon, door knocker, was Fani Willis, another black woman and Dem[...]
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Say what? McConnell falls off his rocker
“Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country from outside the constitutional order,” warned McConnell, adding: “Businesses must not use economic blackmail to spread disinformation and push bad ideas that citizens re[...]
April 4th, 2021 - 1:18 pm § in America, Donald Trump, Economics, Humor, Misc., News Media, Politics, Racism, Schools & Colleges
Bad, bad boomers!
“I’m not a fan of baby boomers,” begins this Vox article. “And no, it’s not really fair to paint an entire generation with the same brush, but I’m doing it anyway,” the writer — somebody I’ve never heard of — continues. “Hopefully, the boomers wi[...]
8 years in prison for a door knock?
Yes. It’s possible, if you’re talking about Georgia, the defendant is black, and the door knock was a protest against a racist voter suppression law. Read story here. After all, that state’s racists just made it a crime to hand a water bottle to a black voter waiting hours in line [...]
March 31st, 2021 - 3:04 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Only in Texas: How can voting provisionally even be a crime?
“The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to review the illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, a Tarrant County woman facing a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election while she was on supervised release for a federal conviction,” the Tex[...]
March 30th, 2021 - 12:58 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Law and Courts, News Media, Politics, Racism
How bad a president was Trump?
That’s the title of an article by Chris Cillizza, who frequently writes about politics for CNN. The article quickly descends into statistics (More Republicans than Democrats like Trump) and scholarly rankings (ranging from near-last to dead-last). If you want to wade through those details, go [...]
GOP Senator calls for “bipartisan” compromise on voting rights. No.
“Bipartisan efforts are the key to successful voting rights reform,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) said on Sunday, March 28, 2021. He appeared to be recounting past history, when Republicans were less overtly racist, and weren’t systematically engaging in voter suppression, as they are [...]
VIDEO: “Is this patriot enough?”
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Georgia GOP’s cynical and racist voting suppression law
Voting rights advocates argue the audacious voter suppression law Georgia Republicans have just enacted targets black voters (see story here), and undoubtedly they’re right. A third of Georgia’s population is black, and high turnout among that demographic was responsible for Biden winn[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Voting in Georgia
While white men in masks sign a Jim Crow law to keep blacks from voting, a black legislator is arrested (and later charged with a felony) for knocking on the governor’s door. (They’ll argue, “You can’t have it both ways. Either protesting is a crime or it isn’t. If the [...]