Jackie Robinson was a member of and an active campaigner for the Republican Party. But by 1968 he was done with the GOP, and became more active in the civil rights movement.
Racism (Us vs Them)
Just as non-existent election fraud has been used to pass voter suppression laws, Republicans are using their fear of critical race theory as an excuse to ban the teaching of the history of racial suppression and enslavement.
Documents show that the Republican hearing witness opposing the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court headed a dark money group that promoted the January 6th insurrection.
After a month on the road, the incoherent procession of truckers, crackpots, crybabies, small dogs, big mouths and old guys in Uncle Sam costumes finally morphed into...a lynch mob crusading against black people.
The “precinct strategy” widely promoted by Steve Bannon has already inspired thousands of Trump supporters to fill local GOP positions, intent on preventing a “stolen election.”
Republicans are resorting to book burning as a protest against teaching history with things like the 1619 Project. In reality it depicts is a history of triumph, achievement, endurance, incremental victories against impossible odds and courage.
Barack Obama's two terms in the White House were notable for their complete lack of scandal. But not according to FOX News.
Trump is campaigning to retake the office he lost. Meanwhile he has described the January 6th riot at the Capitol as a demonstration. Now he's calling for "demonstrations" in New York, Atlanta and Washington, the venues of his upcoming indictments.
Both former gubernatorial candidate David Perdue and Florida Governor DeSantis are proposing an election police force to bolster the Big Lie from Trump that the 2020 election was stolen. Maybe these police should be called the "Election Outcome Enforcement Bureau."
In the four years Trump spent in the White House, he set back progress against racism and white supremacy decades. And he wants to keep this degradation of American rolling.
Fascism has a playbook, handed down from generations of dictators, all who ascended to power using this easy-to-follow checklist. Part of that checklist is doing away with "objectionable" reading material.
Blatant racial discrimination has driven hundreds of thousands of good, Black farmers off the land.
The former guy complained that expanding voting rights would set a stage where "Republicans could never get elected again." Frankly, since the Republican Party has been destroyed by his influence and corruption, that would be fine.
Intelligent people in general are capable of rapidly recognizing bullshit when they see it. So it is easy to see why the leaders of hate groups target them with labels like "elites," "intellectuals," "liberals" or "Jews."
Even now, discussions during plantation tours among visitors can often turn into visceral debates over whether the history of slavery should be told or ignored.
The [Kyle Rittenhouse] verdict, said the Huber family, sends the "unacceptable message" that armed vigilantes can "use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street."