by Common Dreams | Jul 27, 2021 | Racism (Us vs Them)
Reposted from Common Dreams with permission, by Abby Zimet If he’d been allowed to live his “one wild and precious life,” Sunday would have been the 80th birthday of Emmett Till, who at 14 was kidnapped, whipped, mutilated and murdered by white...
by Marty Kassowitz | Jul 14, 2021 | Racism (Us vs Them)
Yesterday in his speech at the National Constitutional Center, President Biden said, “We are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” Biden said today… I’m not saying this to alarm you; I’m saying this because you should be alarmed.”...
by Marty Kassowitz | Jun 15, 2021 | Racism (Us vs Them), Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Let’s do the usual and start with definitions. “Critical race theory is a practice. It’s an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy that rejects the belief that what’s in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems...
by Common Dreams | May 26, 2021 | Racism (Us vs Them)
Republished with permission from Common Dreams. In a 51-48 vote on Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kristen Clarke as the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, making the longtime progressive legal...
by Marty Kassowitz | Mar 22, 2021 | Racism (Us vs Them)
Senator John Cornyn (R, TX) exploded nationally on Twitter, after tweeting a quote from The New York Times saying that instead of stopping illegal immigration, President Joe Biden has “emphasized the humane treatment of immigrants, regardless of their legal status.”...