Excerpts from column by Charles Blow in Monday’s New York Times: We are leaderless. America doesn’t have a president. America has a man in the White House holding the spot, and wreaking havoc as he waits for the day when a real president arrives to replace him. Donald Trump is many things — most of … [Read more…]
My Letter to Rachel Maddow: Dear Rachel, I am one of your biggest fans, and I am very appreciative of how you provide so much in-depth analysis of issues and events. But I have been disappointed this week in how you have contended that there is a difference between current white nationalists and mainstream national … [Read more…]
From Stephen A. Crockett @ The Root, who expresses my sentiments exactly: “When I was in the seventh grade, my dad gave me firm instructions to come home after school. My middle school was across the street from a mall, which meant that after school, everyone hung out, and my dad didn’t want me in … [Read more…]
Inspired by Donald Trump and facilitated by Steve Bannon, white supremacists are working to get their country back. The media bend over backwards to keep from saying so; however, Donald Trump road to the White House on the backs of the white supremacist terrorists like the ones who came to Charlottesville today. Following is a … [Read more…]
Before the smoke settled from the Detroit Rebellion of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson established the Kerner Commission to examine the outbreaks that had occurred with increasing frequency and to answer the following questions: What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to keep it from happening again? Rather than providing the usual whitewashing … [Read more…]
This week is the 50th anniversary of the Detroit riots. At the time, the Detroit Police Department was viewed as a white occupying army. Accusations of racial profiling and police brutality were commonplace. In the early morning of July 23, 1967, Detroit police raided a blind pig, an illegal after-hours bar, and began to arrest … [Read more…]
In a period of less than 26 hours — from 6:31 p.m. on July 24 to 8:09 p.m. on July 25 — President Trump made two speeches, held a news conference, and tweeted wildly, leaving a trail of misinformation in his wake. An analysis by the Washington Post showed that in this short time he … [Read more…]
Following is my response to an editorial in the Roanoke Times. It was published on Sunday. In your editorial on July 7 (“This year’s Little Rock”), you mentioned an increasingly discussed option for our medical care insurance as “an enormously expensive single-payer system.” Yes, a single-payer system is costly, as there is no inexpensive option. … [Read more…]
As usual the radical right is trying to rewrite history to argue that school choice (vouchers, etc.) are a long-time part of our history. Following is a rebuke by Diane Ravitch, our most ardent opponent of this anti-democratic practice of taking public money for private purposes. “Rick Hess makes a valiant but unsuccessful effort to … [Read more…]
I was one of the speakers at our Chain-Chain-Chain event Sunday. Here is what I said. The health care situation in this Congressional District is horrible! It is so bad that last week the PBS News Hour featured our area to show how terrible it is that Virginia did not expand Medicaid to cover more … [Read more…]