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.
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 […]