EJI’s New Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration April 12, 2017 Construction is underway in Montgomery, Alabama, on the Equal Justice Initiative’s new racial justice museum, which will explore America’s legacy of slavery, racial terror, segregation, and mass incarceration. EJI’s planned museum attempts to address our country’s failure to create cultural spaces that have honestly … [Read more…]
Congressional Democrats need to get better at their jobs, especially the public relations part. Republicans are excellent at PR. Democrats are not. Look at the situation. After Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February 2016, Republican Senators—in an unprecedented move–refused to have a hearing for President Obama’s nominee to fill the position on the Supreme Court. … [Read more…]
“Ever since they waded into cannon fire to protect the right of rich people to own black people, poor white people have, in the aggregate, been victims of the longest con in American history. Monied interests have used race to disadvantage them time and again.”—Leonard Pitts
“Donald Trump is a narcissist. It’s a personality disorder. It’s often referred to by a broader, less politically correct term: mental illness. I suggest that everyone read up on it, because its effect is going to disrupt our country for his entire term and perhaps well beyond. To call Trump a racist is to severely … [Read more…]
I might as well ‘fess up. For many years, I have called our medical care “system” barbaric. Since developing this description, I have acquired substantially more education but no better words to describe the medical care situation in the United States–at least until ObamaCare—the ACA– which relieved the situation a bit. It has always seemed … [Read more…]