George Floyd’s Killing Was Ritualized Murder
The medical experts who testified in the Derek Chauvin trial have established that George Floyd had stopped breathing and lost his pulse long before Chauvin removed his knee from his neck. It turns out that Floyd was dead in about five minutes but Chauvin kept his knee on his neck for a total of nine […]
We See What We Want to See
The killing of George Floyd last spring supposedly opened America’s eyes to racism and sparked a new racial awakening in the country. But now the trial of his killer, Derek Chauvin, reminds us of another trial almost 30 years ago—that of four Los Angeles police officers charged with beating Rodney King almost to death. Not […]
Support the “For the People Act”
So, what do you think of Georgia Governor Kemp signing a bill to curtail voting rights and suppress the Democratic vote, happily surrounded by a bunch of middle-aged white men with a picture of a slave plantation hanging in the background? And just to add to the good old-fashioned southern charm and hospitality, he had […]
Stop the Steal – Republicans Want to Suppress the Vote!
Republican legislators in states across the country want to limit early voting and place more restrictions on mail-in voting. They want us to believe the Democrats can only win through voter fraud, but evidence suggests the Republicans can only win through voter suppression.
Senator Ron Johnson
Senator Ron Johnson finally spoke the simple truth of why he and other Trump supporters have so little concern about what happened at the Capitol—the insurrectionists were members of their WHITE team. If nothing else, we owe him a debt of gratitude for laying the truth bare.
And Still More White Trash Privilege
Before I begin, please accept my usual apology for once again using the term “white trash,” an expression that deeply offends my egalitarian grain. While it’s true I was the son of a slaveholder in the antebellum South, I was also raised to respect the “common man,” as poor white people were often referred to […]
Bob’s Big Boy
So, have you seen the hideous golden statue of former president Trump they wheeled out at CPAC—the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference? I grew up in antebellum Alabama rather than post World War II Southern California, but apparently it really does resemble the famous Bob’s Big Boy statue that stands outside all […]
Another Wake Up Call
What happened in Texas last week is one more painful, embarrassing disaster for our country, another one of those terrible events that some inevitably refer to as a “wake-up call.” How many more wake-up calls are going to find us unprepared and ill-equipped? I for one think it’s high time we all woke up! Please […]
Profiles in Worm
I hate to bore you by regurgitating the details of Trump’s second impeachment trial or the awful events at the Capitol on January 6th, but how can anyone, living or dead (such as myself, of course) fail to comment on the Republican senators who voted against impeachment, who have twisted and contorted themselves into knots […]
White TRASH Arrogance
Like their hero, Trump, the people who attacked the U.S. Capitol like to portray themselves as society’s victims, but the truth is their white privilege has long since evolved into pure screaming (quite literally, in many instances!) arrogance and audacity.
A New Republican Party II
The Republican Party has been nothing but a ruse concocted by the corporate power structure using their contrived “culture wars”—God, guns, and gays, etc.— to persuade a disaffected segment of the American electorate to vote against their own economic interests.
The 1776 Project
The report from Trump’s “Advisory 1776 Commission” claims that America’s universities are “hotbeds of Anti-Americanism, libel, and censorship that combine to generate in students and in the broader culture at the very least disdain and at worst outright hatred of this country.”
The Anger is Frightening!
Despite all their raging fury, most of the deluded self-described “patriots” who invaded the U.S. Capitol have very little to be angry about except the fear of losing their white privilege in what is becoming a multi-racial, multi-cultural society.
White TRASH Privilege
The horrendous events at the U.S. Capitol last week were a sad reminder that whiteness still bestows privilege on some of the least fortunate in our society, people filled with hatred and resentment because they have lost all sense of self-worth except for their whiteness.
Farewell 2020!
How can Trump’s supporters look at what happened in 2020 and not want him banished from our lives? How is it possible not to see what a disastrous, failed president he was? How could they vote for him, let alone want his defeat overturned?
Trump Pardons Blackwater Killers
While African Americans in this country are still fighting for recognition that Black Lives matter, Trump’s pardon of the Blackwater killers sends a message that ONLY white lives matter, that everyone else on this earth is nothing but fodder for white power.
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville
Newly elected Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, who may support a Congressional challenge to the Electoral College results, thinks Americans fought World War II to liberate Europe from socialism, not the Nazis, who were fascists, not socialists.
They’ve Shown Us Who They Are (aka Profiles in Schmuckness!)
I’ve quoted Maya Angelou before and, sadly, I’ll probably quote her again: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.” The last time I used those words I was referring to the Republican “base,” but this time I’m talking about the Republican Party itself, most especially the 126 House members and 18 attorney’s general […]
A New Republican Party
In case you’ve ever wondered why an avowed enemy of Southern Democrats—from Reconstruction through Jim Crow, all the way up to the Dixiecrats and the segregationists of the 1950s and 60s—and supporter of Abraham Lincoln and the likes of Thaddeus Stevens (a leader of the radical faction of the Republican Party during the Civil War […]
Unhappy Holidays!
We’ve surely had some sad Christmas seasons during the Civil War (I spent Christmas of 1862, for example, in a muddy, frozen army camp in the woods outside Fredericksburg, VA) and other times in our nation’s history, but I fear this one is shaping up to be among the worst. The food lines are only […]