Sometimes enough to set off political fireworks. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who infamously flashes guns to make political statements (photo, left), blasted the NFL for inviting black actress and singer Sheryl Ralph to perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the Superbowl on Sunday, February 12, [...]
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Mississippi genocide
You may remember the white Republicans who run Mississippi stole nearly $100 million of federal TANF funds intended for the state’s poor, many of whom are black. Two million dollars was paid to retired NFL player Brett Favre as “speaking fees” for talks he never gave, which he refu[...]
Black lives don’t matter in Florida
That’s the message Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, sent when he banned African-American studies from Florida schools. One of his explicit objections to the course was inclusion of “Black Lives Matter” materials. According to him, “Black Lives Matter” has n[...]
January 27th, 2023 - 8:37 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Cops are taught to kill anyone who blinks
The latest victim of killer cops, Tyre Nichols, was murdered after a traffic stop. The initial police story was that he was pulled over for reckless driving and then resisted arrest. But “Memphis’s police chief later told CNN that investigators have ‘been unable to substantiate’ [...]
January 19th, 2023 - 1:32 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
This school district should be under federal court supervision
The Effingham County, Georgia, school system is run by racists who blatantly mistreat black students. Several black students’ parents are suing for an injunction to stop the discrimination (read their lawsuit here). That isn’t enough. The school district needs to be under ongoing federal[...]
DeSantis is pulling guns on black voters
Add Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who wants to be president, to the list of armed Republicans brandishing guns at polling places. In 2018, Florida voters approved a state constitutional amendment that restored voting rights to felons who’ve completed their sentences, except those convicted of mur[...]
Trump’s Supreme Court is a hanging court
The Supreme Court is no longer a place you can go to stop the execution of an innocent person, or of someone whose sentencing was influenced by racial bias. Since 2019, when Trump put his first two appointees on the court, the new conservative court majority hasn’t accepted a single death pena[...]
A Georgia school district that allows Confederate clothing banned a girl’s “Black Lives Matter” t-shirt
Effingham County, Georgia, is a coastal area just north of Savannah, mostly rural, and about three-quarters white (see 2020 census data here). It has a county-wide school system, whose website lists 8 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, 2 high schools, and a “college and career academy.R[...]
What it’s like without a free press
In South Sudan, 6 journalists were arrested for filming the president pissing in his pants. Read story here In Phoenix, Arizona, a Wall Street Journal reporter was arrested for reporting while black. Read story here — West Virginia’s GOP governor got a reporter fired for reporting on abuse [...]
Why are so many migrants coming to the U.S.?
Not because Biden is letting them in, or Trump’s border wall wasn’t completed. “The impact of the pandemic just imploded economies everywhere, especially in the really badly governed countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua,” an administration official said. “People are a[...]