We can make light of the obvious and transparent stupidity of FOX, OAN, Breitbart and Newsmax, but make no mistake, there is nothing funny about their racist propaganda. It is designed to create hate and fear in people and then proceed downward from there.
Racism is rooted in fear, and fear is rooted in what we don’t know and can’t see. It’s not even so much a thought or personal policy. Racism is an involuntary REACTION. And it must, for it’s true power and volition, descend from one who holds the power to one who does not.
Just like a cat arches its back to make itself look larger as it hisses a warning at an enemy, the steadily decreasing number of Trump's remaining supporters seem to be doing the same in their anti-social interactions.
Removing historical teachings of slavery, racism, oppression and genocide from education is clearly an effort to erase awareness of a past where these atrocities were considered normal.
The Holocaust is an undeniable part of human history. Failing to learn from history is one thing, but then there is denying it has happened. Looking at this squarely one sees the corollary: trying to get history to repeat itself.
Facebook and its big tech ilk bombard us with vitriolic content, and their algorithms help to divide Americans. Local-government leaders need to keep this in mind when they offer up incentives to attract their operations.
Only a small percentage of people who hold extremist views ever actually commit acts of violence, but the findings of a survey by University of Chicago reveal how many Americans hold views that could turn them toward insurrection.
Voter suppression for African-Americans began when their right to vote a fantasy. When our founding fathers were crafting our Constitution, the issue of voting rights was raised, and Afro-Americans were deemed to be ¾ of a person, which was a step up from slavery…or not.
After the Civil War, a propaganda campaign was launched against the recently freed African-Americans. They were labeled animals, shiftless, lazy, dumb, poised to take a white man’s job, but perhaps their biggest sin, the biggest lie propagated, was a suppose desire to rape white women. In other words, all lies, no facts.
Since calling out fascism after it succeeds would be like finally agreeing to be vaccinated while they’re hooking you up to a ventilator, ideally more voices will join this candid cadre to make it part of the 2022 election conversation.
Whites still grasp onto the delusion, still believe in the con of racism that Dixieland was some kind of utopia. Perhaps you could say it was for the slave owners, but they were a very unhappy, paranoid lot, soaked in the blood of their terrorism.
Sunday would have been the 80th birthday of Emmett Till, who at 14 was kidnapped, whipped, mutilated and murdered by white supremacist thugs in Mississippi in an act so savage it helped spark the civil rights movement.
The perversion of legislation toward racist ends is nothing new in our country's history. The attempts by Republicans to weld themselves into power by disenfranchising Democratic voters is racism in practice since the real target is people of color, who largely vote Democratic.
Make no mistake about it. The Koch brothers, now reduced by one by the death of David Koch in 2019, have poured billions of dollars into the destruction of our government. Their actions, documented by many sharp-eyed investigative journalists, have been ongoing for decades.
Musician Daryl Davis has an unusual hobby that sets him apart. Daryl meets and becomes friends with members of the Ku Klux Klan—something few black men can say.
Examining the connections between Trump and the Republican Party is on-going source of neck-dislocating head shakes for many people. There is a persistence to it that defies logic when one examines it from the standpoint of normal political calculus.
