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[...]
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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[...]
Sunday, 12/11/22, political stories
Elon Musk said Dr. Anthony Fauci should be “prosecuted,” but didn’t identify a crime Fauci committed. Recent events have exposed Musk as a far-right extremist who, more than once, has made libelous comments about other people (read story here). Trump “wasn’t particularl[...]
A tale of two prison sentences
Ronald Sandlin, 35, a Capitol rioter, traveled from Tennessee to Washington D.C. with two other men “in a rental car packed with two pistols, two magazines of ammunition, cans of bear mace, gas masks, body armor, several knives and other gear, according to prosecutors.” On Jan. 6, 2021, [...]
Why conservatives attack CRT
Critical race theory is an academic subject in graduate schools. Graduate-school subjects obviously aren’t taught in grade schools, but conservative culture warriors have hijacked the term to refer to teaching schoolchildren about slavery, racial discrimination, and mistreatment of black peopl[...]
December 7th, 2022 - 2:55 pm § in Donald Trump, Racism
When the FBI were bad guys
Reverend Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who was re-elected on December 6, 2022, with the help of substantial black turnout despite GOP voter suppression efforts, paid tribute in his victory speech to five civil rights martyrs by name (see story here). One of those victims of racial hatred was Viola[...]
What makes Marjorie Taylor Greene tick?
The Atlantic tackles this question here. Before I summarize their thoughts, you should know a little about Greene, besides the fact she represents a very red rural district in Northwest Georgia. She’s rich. She and her (estranged) husband own a construction company started by her father. She r[...]
December 5th, 2022 - 4:47 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Justices Alito puts KKK robes on black kids and laughs
A bizarre scene unfolded in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, December 5, 2022. Lawyers were arguing over whether a Colorado graphic designer has a religious right to refuse service to gay couples (spoiler alert: she’ll win). Justice Jackson, who’s black, asked the designer’s attor[...]
December 1st, 2022 - 2:13 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Sheriff who harassed black newspaper carrier goes on trial
A sheriff called “a danger to the community” by the judge who set his bail at $100,000 (see story here) went on trial this week for allegedly lying to a police dispatcher that a black newspaper carrier threatened him, prompting a massive police response. Pierce County, Washington, Sherif[...]