Issue: 785
April 18, 2019
Color of Law
Pew Survey: 67 Percent of Whites Have Never Experienced Racial Discrimination, While 76 Percent of Blacks Have
Executive Editor
the results of their most recent report on race in America speak for themselves, and the people surveyed reinforce the notion that America is in a bad way on matters of race. And they believe Trump is only dragging us down further.
In light of the rise in hate crimes in America in recent years, and the rise of President Donald Trump through the exploitation of racial divisions…
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Cover Story
Don’t Mess with Maxine: Mnuchin Madnes
Editorial Board
White supremacy attempts to reinforce the egregious nature of the Dred Scott decision in which the Supreme Court of these United States declared that the Black man had “no rights that a white man is bound to respect." For Steven Mnuchin, Congresswoman Maxine Waters had no rights he was bound to respect. For Mnuchin, and too many others in the 45 circle, the Dred Scott decision still stands.
Who does Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin think he is? Simmering in his putrid privilege, he seemed to think that he was in charge of the House…
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Commentary
We Need Safe Spaces of Worship
Editorial Board
Places of worship are supposed to be sanctuaries. Freedom of religion is guaranteed in our constitution, and it’s a freedom that should be upheld globally. With many of us approaching the high holy holidays these coming days and weeks ahead, nothing would be more comforting than knowing our places of worship are safe.
The high holy holidays of Passover and Easter are fast approaching and Ramadan is in May. Attacks, however, on places of worship are becoming too frequent…
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Commentary
Reparations – Part 1: America Begins in Africa
Editorial Board
What is slavery if not the history of America’s brutal subjugation of Africans and African Americans? But our subjugation didn’t end in 1865. The backlash against freed blacks and Reconstruction resulted in the violent renunciation of our humanity again with legalized segregation and the systemic oppression meant to track and stifle our rights as human beings as well as our mobility in the world.
read all parts of this series Women respond to racism. My response to racism is anger. I have lived with that anger, ignoring it, feeding upon…
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Commentary
When a President Sows Hatred, What Kind of Country is Possible? – Solidarity America
Columnist
When ignorance and hate are combined, it makes for a deadly stew and the result can be seen in the chaotic condition of the White House.
It's easy to hate. Never has the United States of America had one person who has generated so much hate as the current occupant of the…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Tiger, Please Tell Trump He Can Take His Fake Presidential Medal of Freedom and
Columnist
Mr. Woods, please make this defiant stand, right here and now - and I’ll submit history will remember you as a man, when “push came to shove” who didn’t roll-over and bend-over in the face of tyrannical power. . . Tiger you don’t want to be remembered as a “white man’s Nigger,” who did as told, so as to not have to endure the rage of Grand Pooh Bah Trump.
Dear Tiger, Please, please . . . please inform Donald Trump that he can take his “illegitimate” Presidential Medal of Freedom and ram it up his…
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Commentary
Board Member Indicted in Milwaukee School Choice Mecca
Columnist
Wisconsin teachers are a bellwether of teacher power in the political arena, and teachers will loom large in the 2020 presidential election.
The long-term corruption behind the school choice (voucher and charter school) initiative is now being exposed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Viewed as the mecca for public school…
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