Texas history is both the story of people who dedicated their lives to the work of advancing freedom and the story of powerful people and forces that stood against it.
Racist conspiracy theories still plague American politics, from baseless accusations that Barack Obama was born in Kenya to false assertions that global elites are engineering a “great replacement” of white Americans.
Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials stumbled across a cache of Ku Klux Klan materials while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters.
It is pretty plain that proud MAGAs vote for Trump because of the racism, not in spite of it. Seems pretty simple that if you support a bigot, you are a bigot, and there’s nothing lower than that.
Current high school students shared incidents of white teachers using racial epithets, including the n-word, and one saying, “You’re acting like a park ape.”
The rest of us are tired of you racists enabling, supporting, voting for, and actively partnering with other racists and expecting us accept it and be silent about it.
If we allow a network of secretive, cruel, detention facilities for one set of powerless people today, tomorrow it will inevitably turn those same systems against anyone who challenges their power.
Whether you want to buy a home or access the stored wealth in the home you own in Philadelphia, you are disadvantaged if you are a person of color or if the home is located in a mostly Black or Hispanic neighborhood.
Trump’s white supremacist loyalists are rewriting history, erasing Black heroes, and purging diversity, and the politicians who stay silent are complicit in that treason.