The Truth is an Easier Master to Serve
Voter rights legislation is winding its way through Congress with the foregone conclusion that Senate Republicans will scuttle it. Equitable voting rights legislation for blacks...
Well, That Solves the Problem…?
Much like with the election of Barack Obama, after the Derek Chauvin conviction, America was quick to congratulate itself. The fallacy of a post-racial America...
VA-Gov: GOP's Leading Candidate For Governor Says Derek Chauvin Verdict Makes Her “Sick”
Friendly reminder, there’s a big Governor’s race in Virginia this year: Virginia Republican state Sen. Amanda Chase is no stranger to making provocative statements, and...
'You've done nothing wrong': Virginia cop canned after donating to Kyle Rittenhouse defense fund
You know, I’m happy they were able to take Kyle Rittenhouse into custody after he allegedly shot and killed two people during protests in Kenosha,...
Knee on the Throat, Foot on the Gas?
I watched the celebration of former police officer Derek Michael Chauvin’s conviction of three various counts of murder yesterday, and my feelings were mixed. No,...
Kayleigh McEnany doesn't like presidents who inflame tensions, scolds Biden for his Chauvin comments
Irony died years ago, but former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has decided to exhume its corpse and drag it through town behind a...
Fighting for our Lives
Fifteen years ago, black suspect, Neal Mack gasped for breath, using the all too familiar words “I can’t breathe.” Mr. Mack was handcuffed and having...
It is Long Past Time to Reimagine Policing in America
The Black Codes of the late 1800s are making a comeback in America. These ordinances were meant to control the free movement of people of...
The Conversation
White America has been made aware there is a conversation black parents have been compelled to have with their children, literally, for centuries. The conversation,...
GOP senator takes not-so-subtle poke at Black Lives Matter during gun violence hearing
I’m not in a jovial mood today. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed ... because my bed is still in America. If...
Remaking the Culture
Senator Ron Johnson said the blatant part out loud, that he fears black people and not white people. When confronted about his remarks, surprise, surprise,...
Is Being called a ‘Racist’ the White Man’s N-word?
Oprah Winfrey’s query of the exiled Royals was a superfluous gesture to most black Americans. That was until she brought up the subject of the...
LA DA George Gascón (D) Helps A Fellow Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Win A CA State Senate Seat
Received this e-mail today from Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón (D. CA), in support of Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager’s (D. CA) State Senate campaign...
Racism is the Connective Tissue
In 2008 when former President Obama was thrust into one of the biggest financial messes since the depression of 1929, his stated goal was to...
Everything is about Race because White Folks Made it That Way
Ever since the first enslaved Africans stepped off ships, suffering from dysentery, malnutrition, and pleurisy, the marker was laid that race is the predominant politic...
The Lowest Common Denominator
On March 25, 1965, eleven days after the candles were blown out on my birthday cake, Ms. Viola Liuzzo was gunned down in her car...
Florida man endorses alleged murderer for Congress
Republicans sure have some odd ideas about who should serve in Congress. They’ve backed alleged pedophiles, QAnon weirdos, and — because there’s simply no limit...
My Pillow guy helps spring alleged killer Kyle Rittenhouse from jail — because it's 2020, yo
Did you have this one on your road to the apocalypse bingo card? A 17-year-old kid brings an AR-15 to a protest, kills two people...
GA-Sen A & B: Joe Biden Is Coming Back To Georgia To Get His Senate Majority
I’m all in for this: President-elect Joe Biden will join the lineup of influential Democrats involved in Georgia's ongoing senatorial campaigns, according to his recently-named...
GA-Sen A & B: Emerson Poll Has Both Jon Ossoff (D) & Raphael Warnock (D) Leading
Here’s the latest news today out of Georgia courtesy of Emerson College’s latest poll: The final Emerson College poll before the November 3rd election in...
ME-Sen: “How my former boss Susan Collins (R) broke my heart – and lost my support”
A former member of U.S. Senator Susan Collins’ (R. ME) staff released a very compelling op-ed piece in the Press Herald where she talks about...
Jared Kushner has a very important message for Black people
Little Lord Fauntleroy has an urgent message for Black Americans: You must appreciate everything Donald Trump has done for you! Why are you complaining? The...
MO-Gov: Can We Please Get Rid Of Missouri's Racist Dog Whistling, Superspreader Governor
There aren’t a lot of Governor races for me to cover this year. Governors Roy Cooper (D. NC) and Jay Inslee (D. WA) are looking...
Finally, a US Supercarrier named after enlisted sailor and African American War Hero.
A US aircraft carrier is the first named for an enlisted sailor and first named for an African American. The 15 billion dollar carrier was announced the...
Finally, a US Supercarrier named after enlisted sailor and African American War Hero
A US aircraft carrier is named for an enlisted sailor and African American named Doris "Dorie" Miller. The 15 billion dollar carrier was announced the USS...
Portland Proud Boys day of rage fizzles as promised crowd of 20,000 turns out 500
Much jackboot-quaking as a much-touted demo in Portland had a weak showing north of the anarchist jurisdiction. xtickled by this because I watched 5 seconds...
KY-Sen: Amy McGrath (D) Calls On KY AG To Release Grand Jury Report On Breonna Taylor Case
This needs attention: Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath on Thursday called on state Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) to release the grand jury report...
The US has surpassed 200,000 coronavirus deaths. Who sent the ricin to Trump
Ricin attacks against the WH seem more routine rather than random and their origins do seem to follow ideologies more worried about the extremism within the White...
Trump promises “It’ll start getting cooler. You just watch” (the planet cool when Hell froze over)
So many contradictions, so little time, as non-socially distanced followers are kept away from Trump by a thin white line. xWhat about everyone else? https://t.co/XExDwnbqOO—...
In the Thought Bubble
Men’s basketball has been in the Bubble and fittingly (I guess) the women are in the Wubble. Baseball is playing before packed houses of canned...
The Sleep, The Woke, and The Smart
For most black people in America, we encounter three types of white people. The first are the sleepers, those who live in a somnambulant world...
GA-Sen B: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D) Releases Ad Recalling Childhood Experience With Racism
Good stuff: xWhen I was 12, I was falsely accused of shoplifting in a grocery store. My experience dealing with structural inequality as a black...
GA-Sen B: Watch Black Lives Matter Activists Bring The Heat To Kelly Loeffler's (R) Campaign Event
This is awesome: A campaign event for U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., in North Forsyth was interrupted by Black Lives Matter supporters on Thursday afternoon....
New poll shows Trump's apocalyptic anti-protester message is failing, big-league
Well, well, well, isn’t this inconvenient for the ocher abomination? xThere goes that plotline:56% say violence will get worse if Trump is re-elected18% say it...
White House on accused shooter Kyle Rittenhouse: 'The president is not going to weigh in on that'
President LAW & ORDER seems pretty reticent when it comes to, er … wait, this can’t be right … a white 17-year-old who killed two people and...
Portland mayor rips Trump to shreds: 'It’s you who have created the hate and the division'
Somehow Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler got hold of my bile duct and squeezed out all my personal feelings about Donald Trump like it was a...
You are literally NOT safe in Donald Trump's America; we have to flip the script
Somehow I don’t remember the continual civil unrest when Joe Biden was vice president. I don’t remember a thousand people dying every day from a...
Kyle Rittenhouse gets caught on video, again, this time for sucker-punching a girl.
The video just now surfaced of the murderer of Kenosha and his deplorable buddies attacking and beating a girl. Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two people and wounded...
Kushner: Protesting NBA players are 'very fortunate' they have the 'luxury' of taking a 'night off'
Good God, Little Lord Fauntleroy. Read the room. What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this response? Way to seize the moment with your...
GA-Sen B: Loeffler (R) Blames Protestors, Not Gunman, For Protestors Deaths In Kenosha Shooting
True to form: xBlaming the shooting targeting protesters -- 2 were killed -- on the protesters themselves is the take Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler chose...
A mini-lesson in how media treat Black victims and white perpetrators
Needless to say, this is appalling. https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1298820170891362304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw See? Kyle Rittenhouse simply wanted to help. He’s a good (i.e., white) boy deep down. I mean, we...
SC-Sen: Of Course Lindsey Graham (R) Wants To Know Why Jacob Blake “Didn't Yield” In Police Shooting
Can’t say that I’m surprised: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday questioned the actions Jacob Blake took before the 29-year-old Black man was shot several times by a police...
Tucker Carlson gives cover to a domestic terrorist who killed two and shot others.
The Kenosha killer was apparently a Trumpist, and wasn’t immediately arrested, even as the police witnessed several people being shot. Jacob Blake’s assailant has also...
Kenosha shooter was photographed sitting in front row of Trump rally in January
Because of course he was. xNEW: Kyle Howard Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who was charged with shooting and killing two people and injuring another in Kenosha...
NBA coach on GOP: 'They're spewing this fear … We’re the ones getting shot'
During a postgame press conference yesterday, Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers had a powerfully emotional reaction to the recent shooting of Jacob Blake in...
WI Dems Mount Pressure On GOP State Legislature To Pass Legislation Cracking Down On Police Violence
Received this e-mail today from the Wisconsin Democratic Party: In the wake of the horrifying police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, who...
KY-Sen: Amy McGrath (D) Puts Pressure On KY AG To Release Report On Breonna Taylor Investigation
Sorry I missed this: xToday marks 100 days since the KY AG took on the Breonna Taylor case and still no final report. Release the...
Kentucky U.S. Senate Candidates Dragging Contest Down Rabbit Hole: China and Rioters Oh My!
No, I am NOT being Chuck “Bothsiderist” Todd, but I need to tell you all about the descent into the rabbit hole that the U.S....
Tucker goes full white supremacist: 'Demographic shift' will make cities 'dirty and dangerous'
I almost preferred the dog whistles to the train whistles. But hey, at least they’re out in the open now. Tucker Carlson from last night’s...