When People Are Out of Work, Unemployment Results
“When people are out of work, unemployment results.” Those are the infamous words of
President Calvin Coolidge from almost 100 years ago. Why do so many of our leaders in
Washington seem equally mystified by COVID-19’s impact on the unemployment figures?
Trump FAILED to Stem the Tide of Disaster
A long list of missed opportunities and errors in judgement led to our America’s COVID-19 disaster. Tracking all of Trump’s mistakes is like reading about his bankruptcies, only this time his failures are not only well documented by the media, but by hundreds of tweets!
In the Long Run, We are All Dead
The COVID-19 pandemic tragically illustrates our country’s crippling polarization and economic inequality. It should be obvious that a democracy can’t survive with a wealth gap that leaves so many people living paycheck to paycheck. Talk about a house of cards on the brink!
Could Trump Even Function in a World Without Twitter?!
If Donald Trump had led the Confederacy, the Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth might have come much sooner! He probably would have enjoyed leading a nation that’s existence was based on slave labor, but it’s hard to imagine him functioning in a world without Twitter!
A Big, Fat, Dumb Ostrich
A True Embarrassment For Our Country What more I can say about President Trump’s incompetent handling of the coronavirus outbreak that I didn’t say last week, or that hasn’t been said all over the Internet and the airwaves? We always knew he was completely lacking in the qualities necessary to be President—he’s so neurotic and […]
President Trump, Our President Davis
This former Confederate officer has hesitated to say anything until now, despite it being painfully obvious, but President Trump reminds me all too much of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America—and that’s an insult to both of them! President Trump’s pathological narcissism in the face of the coronavirus crisis is devastating to […]
Biden and Sanders: Old White Men
Anything about “old white men” given I’m approaching two hundred years old and about as Anglo Saxon as they come… Blond-haired and blue-eyed, all the usual stereotypes that come to mind. (Supposedly my family descended from the ancient kings of England, but that’s what most all the Southern cadets at West Point said back in […]
Stop and Frisk
Mike Bloomberg might be one of the wealthiest men in the country and the former mayor of its largest city, but his pitiful defense of stop and frisk shows that, at his oblivious white man’s core, he’s no different than a small town sheriff in the Jim Crow South.
America’s Lies
Last week, I wrote about some of the many lies in America’s history. Lies that have been turned into myths and taught to our children as facts. There was a time when I didn’t think there could be any greater lies than those perpetrated by the masters of the Cotton Kingdom; to defend the institution […]
Remember the Alamo!
Of all the things I found moronic and offensive about the President’s State of the Union Address last week, none was more painfully ridiculous than his assertion that he was a friend to people of color, most especially African Americans and Hispanics, and they have never been better off thanks to his policies. I’ll leave […]
The Impeachment Trial of President Trump
As a rule, I focus on the issues that are most important to me and try not to get too bogged down in issues of Democrat versus Republican and the daily dealings of Washington, DC. Although it should be obvious, I’m far more likely to support Democratic positions. I especially detest President Trump and everything […]
White Folks’ Masters – What About The Ruling Elite?
Something brought to light by the advent of Trump’s America that goes back quite a ways is the problem of white folks identifying with their capitalist masters and mistakenly believing they are their friends and allies. I don’t mean to minimize the horrors of the antebellum plantation system by comparing the masters of the Cotton […]
Who are We Fooling this Martin Luther King Jr Day?
Martin Luther King’s birthday is not only a time to honor Dr. King’s legacy, but also to reflect on the status of racial injustice in our country. That reflection once again reveals a sorry picture this year. I thought things would change in time—that the undeniable racial injustice in our society would gradually subside—but in […]
Distorting the Reality of Ukraine
President Trump’s calamitous distortions come so quickly that I barely have time to scribble my thoughts down before a new absurdity bursts forth across the airwaves and cyberspace. As a guy who’s been around for almost 200 years—a son of the Cotton Kingdom and the Confederacy’s favorite poster boy (you can read all about it […]
A Woman President
As someone who lived in a time when women weren’t even allowed to vote (the 19thAmendment giving women the right to vote wasn’t ratified until 1920!), let alone run for President, I applaud all of the current female candidates seeking the Democratic nomination to oppose President Trump in 2020. How fitting that we may elect […]
Is Kamala Harris Black?
Among the latest Trump-family-induced, race-related controversies is the issue of whether Kamala Harris is really “Black,” whether her Jamaican heritage disqualifies her from being a legitimate “Black” American. This raises an astounding number of ironies and reminds me of the antiquated beliefs expounded in the literature of “passing,” in which a character wishes to appear […]
The Legacy of Slavery
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the legacy of slavery, and this son of a Cotton Kingdom slaveholder wants to be sure everyone understands the gravity of the issue. I sometimes get the feeling that a lot of people use the term slavery like a buzz word without really knowing what it entailed […]
Abolishing the Electoral College
They’re already talking about the possibility of President Trump winning a second term despite losing the popular vote; supposedly he could lose by as many as 5 million votes and still win the election. (That’s even more than Hilary Clinton’s 2016 margin of 3 million.) The explanation is that Trump’s “base” is concentrated in many […]
The Economy Ain’t So Good!
Am I the only one who’s sick and tired of hearing how wonderful the economy is doing? Okay, maybe according to the government’s obsolete methodology unemployment is at its lowest level in fifty years, but what does that really mean? It certainly doesn’t make allowances for the fact that many people are forced to work […]
Robert E. Lee’s Skill as a General is Irrelevant
President Trump is just plain wrong about Robert E. Lee’s skill as a general. Believe me, if there’s anything this former Confederate officer can speak to with authority, it’s “Bobby” Lee’s skill as a general. He was my commanding general and I owe my fame to his dubbing me the “gallant Pelham,” but I don’t […]