America’s Misplaced Fears
The greatest threat to the American people isn’t rampaging mobs invading the suburbs or gun-toting vigilantes in souped-up pickup trucks; it’s President Trump’s incompetent leadership in the face of a pandemic that isn’t going away despite his many claims to the contrary.
The “White” Republican Convention
When Trump is declared the “bodyguard of western civilization,” is there any doubt that “western” means “white,” and the threat to civilization, the barbarians at the gate, are people of color, especially Blacks, who will be unleashed to attack white suburban neighborhoods?
The “Dark” Democratic Convention
President Trump claims the Democratic Convention was “dark,” but with over 1,000 COVID deaths every day and the toll anticipated to surpass 300,000 by year’s end, don’t you think it should be dark?! Only Republicans could find something to cheer about at such a time.
Birtherism Reborn
Just as President Trump has suggested that violence taking over our cities and the destruction of suburbia are greater threats to our nation than the mounting death toll of the COVID-19 virus, he has now fabricated a new “birther” myth that Kamala Harris isn’t legally qualified to be Vice President based on her parents having […]
Americans Can Always Be Counted on To Do the Right Thing, After They’ve Tried Everything Else
“The Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.” That’s what British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said of his ally during World War II. But still in a state of denial about COVID-19, PRESIDENT TRUMP REFUSES TO TRY ANYTHING.
Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned
It’s doubtful that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but President Trump is most certainly fiddling with our election process while Americans are still dying of COVID-19—what has become the “Trump virus”—by the thousands and our economy is going to hell.
Trump is a Big Fat, Dumb Ostrich! An Infographic
The Threat to Suburbia
If we are to believe President Trump, the greatest threat to America is NOT the COVID-19 virus, but the danger posed by the radical left and its thugs to America’s (mostly white) suburbs. “No more suburbia,” the president seemed to enjoy rolling off his tongue in an ominous tone, just to make sure the dog […]
Our Children’s Lives Matter – Defund Betsy DeVos
President Trump’s threat to withhold federal funding from public schools that do not open this fall in accordance with his wishes should not be taken lightly, even if, as per usual, he lacks the power to follow through. Nothing is more important to an egalitarian democracy (what America still aspires to be, despite our growing […]
Dying of Whiteness
Jonathan M. Metzl’s extraordinary 2019 book, Dying of Whiteness, How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland just gets more relevant as the COVID-19 pandemic worsens and our country approaches the 2020 election. As the virus rages across the country with no end in sight and President Trump attempts to distract his “base” […]
From the Hood to the Holler
“From the Hood to the Holler,” that’s the campaign slogan of Charles Booker, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. I applaud the notion of poor black folks and poor white folks working together to challenge the modern-day Cotton Kingdom (today’s top 1%) that’s making ALL the folks lives tougher every day. As Booker says: […]
Trump, the Jim Crow President
Even more than Richard Nixon’s 1968 “law and order” campaign, Trump’s ugly antics resemble those of former Alabama governor George Wallace, the virulent racist who also ran for President in 1968 and made no secret of his wanting the country to return to Jim Crow.
Our Law and Order President
Trump is blatantly fueling hatred and racism to get reelected. Being the “law and order” President sounds a bullhorn that he will keep the Black Lives Matter demonstrators, white America’s latest embodiment of the “other,” safely in their place for another four years!
Trump’s Enablers
If everything wrong with American law enforcement got fixed tomorrow, African Americans and other people of color would still be suffering injustice until we tackle our society’s overwhelming structural economic inequality. Our system is an unjust, horrific mess!
I Can’t Breathe
The murders of Eric Garner and George Floyd were about domination, not law enforcement. Putting your knee on someone’s neck while they plead for their life isn’t something that should be covered by police training, it’s a manifestation of sadistic hatred, plain and simple.
America is All Too Willing to Sacrifice People of Color to COVID-19
Even if they are acknowledged to be “essential workers,” people of color are treated as expendable (i.e., black AND brown lives don’t matter!) and dying in disproportionate numbers because there’s no economic incentive for most white Americans to care whether they lie or die.
The “New Normal” Ain’t Gonna to Be Too Good!
Maybe it’s more efficient to ship every conceivable item in the known universe out of Amazon’s warehouses, but what about the people who lost their jobs at retailers all across America? Even if Amazon could hire them all, do we really want the whole country working for Amazon?
The Biggest Decision of Trump’s Life (He Didn’t Make It)
Trump will be remembered for his negligent and incompetent management of the COVID-19 crisis, which destroyed our economy and caused the worst unemployment since the Great Depression, NOT the “greatest economy in the history of the world.”
Don’t Let History Repeat Itself
The “liberate” protests going on all across the country, some led by gun-toting, right-wing extremists, are trying to turn what should be a non-political public health decision into another rally against the “liberal elite” and the tyranny of big government.
Inequality Is the Root Cause of What Ails Us
Our dysfunctional healthcare system, increasingly unaffordable housing, and insurmountable student loan debt all make it obvious that our country’s economic system was a disaster for most Americans long before the COVID-19 crisis.