You know, if you go back far enough, most people today probably have ancestors who “owned” slaves. Slavery was rampant in the ancient world, after all. But with regard to reparations, here’s what’s important: Some people ***cough, cough, white people*** continue to benefit from the institutional racism that followed slavery and continued until ***checks watch*** now….
Category: CivilRights
Laura Ingraham on reparations and the history of oppression: 'We won, you lost, that's that'
On her eponymous podcast today, Laura Ingraham turned the racism up to 11. And it got stuck there. And now she’s just Ann Coulter roughly two minutes before she was skeletonized by piranhas. Ingraham was talking about reparations and it got a little, well, weird. And by “weird” I mean horrifyingly hateful and offensive. Via Media…
Trump spends two minutes at Dr. King memorial, doesn't mention the man
Donald Trump spent approximately as much time tweeting about Curt Schilling’s Hall of Fame snub last night as he did honoring Martin Luther King Jr. today. Well, of course. One is a crazy white dipshit hatemonger and the other is an African-American civil rights icon. Which do you think he prefers? From The Huffington Post: President…
MI-Gov: The Nation, “An Enemy of Civil Rights Just Won the GOP Nomination for Governor of Michigan”
The Nation has a great piece exposing GOP nominee for Governor, Bill Schuette’s (R. MI) awful, bigoted record as Attorney General of Michigan and how he is the farthest thing from being a champion of civil rights: In 2012, two Michigan residents, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, filed suit over the state’s ban on same-sex marriages and…
Racism Blinders, Public Education, and Civil Rights: GLEP Is The Problem, Not The Solution
Last week Gary Naeyaert of Great Lakes Education Project tweeted an image that sparked outrage with many people in the state and earned the organization dedicated to destroying public education much deserved notoriety. After three additional tweets trying to explain what he meant by the meme to compare Michigan State School Superintendent Mike Flanagan to…
An Open Letter To The Republicans In Lansing
Proposal 1 was defeated in Michigan on Tuesday. This is good news (for now) for the state. Rick Snyder has already promised to draft a new Emergency Dictator law and decreed the zombie law PA 72 is now in force. The only problem with this is PA 72 was repealed with the illegal immediate effect…
Can we get a little push back against some racists?
You know, every time I start to think that America has finally gotten itself just a little bit closer to being a non-racist society (and I know that it isn't yet, but we seem to be moving at a glacial pace in that direction), morons like these people rear their ugly heads and roar their…