Tag: Confederacy

I’ve written a lot about the Republican Party being at war with itself and falling apart, but now it has unquestionably evolved into the “party …

Despite what Republican Senator Tim Scott of the “great state” of South Carolina says, we all know that America is undeniably a racist country, a …

While most of us are celebrating justice for George Floyd and hope it represents a positive turning point for our country, a sizeable minority on …

While we can all rejoice in Derek Chauvin being found guilty of all charges in the killing of George Floyd, this humble spirt is running …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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.

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 …

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?  …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 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.”

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.

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.

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?

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.