Racism (Us vs Them)

Blaming the victims of hate and hate speech for that hate is a practice that is actually thousands of years old. Elon Musk has opened the power of "social" platform to once again amplify this insanity.

These days, Florida is going backwards. Our government is increasingly secretive, increasingly authoritarian, and increasingly racist. The state is channeling Alabama c. 1965. We even have our own George Wallace.

American news readers must come to grips with how today’s journalism coaxes them into hating and fearing migrants as some sort of monsters.

The violence in Montgomery was another example of white people of privilege who believe the laws and rules don’t apply to them and resort to violence when asked to be decent human beings.

Aldean, it turns out, may be crazy about small towns, but he's not from one, nor does he live in one. He grew up in Macon, where he attended private school, and he lives in Nashville.

Ron DeSantis and the Florida Board of Education want us to believe slavery was actually a free job training program.

From incinerator smoke to toxic waste sites, Black residents in Florida face a lot of health hazards.

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. A history Texas Republicans today are trying to erase.

Given multiple chances to condemn white nationalism; given plenty of opportunities to say racism is a threat to our national defense, Tuberville retreated into whiny, self-pitying victimhood.

Human beings fleeing persecution are not a “flood,” "invasion" or “surge.” And it’s not “illegal” when they cross the border to seek asylum.

In August 1955, Emmett Till had barely turned 14 when he visited his Mississippi relatives from Chicago, only to be beaten and shot to death after he reportedly wolf-whistled at Carolyn Bryant Donham at a store.

The book Governor Ivey objects to urges inclusion and understanding for young children coming into education programs from all kinds of different families.

Republicans from Tennessee to Tallahassee to Tacoma struggle manfully to stop "decorum" rule-breakers who would keep disrupting their white men’s God-ordained exercise of unchecked power.

The Tennessee GOP expelled two Black, duly elected, Democrats from their chamber—a clearly racist move—and then immediately began fundraising their base saying, "Our fight is just beginning."

Being stopped by the cops is not supposed to be a life-threatening event. But even in "progressive" San Francisco, things can and have gone very wrong.

Musk’s acquisition of Twitter came has reversed a decade-long trend among tech giants to take more responsibility for hate speech, harassment, incitement, disinformation and other harms flowing through their platforms.