Slavery

How Much is Too Much?

3 weeks ago William Owens

If it were a perfect world, I would like to think that the most recent…

RWNJs are workshopping the false dichotomy of 1619/1776 in advance of the mid-term elections.

4 weeks ago annieli

These are days fraught with political battles over cultural histories abjuring complexity. Today it’s The Wall…

The Truth is an Easier Master to Serve

1 month ago William Owens

Voter rights legislation is winding its way through Congress with the foregone conclusion that Senate…

My Race is an Issue

1 month ago William Owens

Most things in America are solved by either common sense, solemnity, or time. The one…

Minerva @ Midnight: Josh Hawley whines, “Help, I'm being repressed… by Big Tech.”

1 month ago annieli

Because Hawley’s whines about Big Tech while promoting sales of his book on Amazon, the epitome…

Two Sides of the Same Con

2 months ago William Owens

If you take a moment and listen to the so-called moderate wing of the Republican…

Minerva @ Midnight: people like Giuliani's records, they're not thinking about the first impeachment

2 months ago annieli

Remember when Trump said: “I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not…

“brushing history against the grain”… what did happen to a purse made from Nat Turner's skin

2 months ago annieli

A new book suggests now the necessity of reexamining the historical materialist project of Walter…

Jen Psaki schools reporter wanting black Ambassador gone for owning our white supremacist genesis

2 months ago Egberto Willies

Jen Psaki did not hesitate as she defended UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield for claiming the…

It is Long Past Time to Reimagine Policing in America

2 months ago William Owens

The Black Codes of the late 1800s are making a comeback in America. These ordinances…

Why do white women defend Matt Gaetz and previous guy, even if those guys don't talk to each other

2 months ago annieli

The 2020 election showed how Trump was defeated by defections among white women but there…

Stephanie Kelton: Biden can go bigger, but they must understand MMT & inflation.

3 months ago Egberto Willies

I read “Biden Can Go Bigger and Not ‘Pay for It’ the Old Way” by…

Minerva @ Midnight: April Fools – Baylor U. conservatives think slavery was good

3 months ago annieli

Change as a rising tide seems to be falling short as history’s stream is not as…

Political Reality?

3 months ago William Owens

I could spend a lot of time making statistical comparisons about the influx of immigrants…

Dr. Joey “Don't Say Gay” Hensley (TN Senate R) tries more mischief for KKK founder bust

3 months ago annieli

A noted piece of work, State Senator Hensley, a Sons of Confederate Veterans member, decided there…

Ted and Greta more like 'Son of JFK Killer' versus TEDtalks Climate

3 months ago annieli

There’s really only one Ted that’s applicable to an unconfirmed source trying to connect Greta…

human trafficking and Comfort Women at Harvard Law – call off your old, tired ethics

4 months ago annieli

Recovering memory and historical revisionism in sex work might be the sad product of many…

The Bigger Lies

4 months ago William Owens

As much as I would like to think that the two-party system is essential to…

The Door is Ajar

4 months ago William Owens

Forty-four of the sitting fifty Republicans in the Senate put on their tinfoil hats, held…

Matthew Dowd dissects the real ills of today’s Republican Party and the insurrection's cause

4 months ago Egberto Willies

Matthew Dowd gets to the core of the reason many participated in the Capitol insurrection….

The Un-Civil War

5 months ago William Owens

Living, working, and surviving as a black man in a national community that sees you…

Harriet Tubman $20 bill fast-tracked by Biden following Trump administration delay

5 months ago Aldous Pennyfarthing

Donald Trump tried his best to erase Barack Obama’s legacy, but Joe Biden is president…

Trump more concerned with the optics of being convicted by the Senate, as he cuts bait on pardons

5 months ago annieli

No doubt there are Trump pardons, but the cluster falls close to the _____. Apparently…

The right is trying to both-sides the MAGA insurrection; here's why that's bullsh*t

5 months ago Aldous Pennyfarthing

Almost immediately after the siege on the Capitol ended, people started both-sidesing the event. You…

Stacey Abrams laid waste to a silly question the host asked comparing her election to Trump’s

6 months ago Egberto Willies

A prepared Stacey Abrams did not allow This Week host to create a false equivalence…

Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday 1 January, Little-Round Top

6 months ago annieli

Happy New Year Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to…

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits

6 months ago annieli

The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment….

Revising the invention of tradition(s): more on the Garrett Felber affair at U. of Mississippi.

6 months ago annieli

This continues the diary of two days ago. Nostalgia is a coping mechanism at the…

Everything is about Race because White Folks Made it That Way

6 months ago William Owens

Ever since the first enslaved Africans stepped off ships, suffering from dysentery, malnutrition, and pleurisy,…

GA-Sen B: “Sen. Loeffler’s (R) Husband Bought Stock In Sectors Set To Benefit From Then-Secret Bill”

6 months ago Sam Sero

From The Huffington Post: For weeks, the couple had done almost nothing but sell. Loeffler…

Will Trump go down as the worst President ever? (He has some sadly strong competition)

7 months ago RETIII

As each day passes, Trump adds to an already impressive body of evidence arguing that…

John Brown's Body lies a-moldering in the grave

7 months ago annieli

Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But tho…